Word: attachable
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Spidery Wires. The trailer backs up to the base of a gantry; cables are attached, and up comes the payload, trailer and all. When the bird is snugged into its red iron nest, the trailer is peeled off and trundled away. White tarpaulins drop over the missile's exposed side to keep off rain and the Cape's corrosive salt mists. Inside, casually competent engineers and technicians in white hard hats begin to spin the spidery wires and connect the delicate electronic mechanisms that will control the bird. Capsule specialists poise their instrument-packed pod atop the rocket...
...There has been a tendency to attach disproportionate value to the method of direct negotiations," he said, adding that other peace-keeping methods proposed by the U.N. Charter - such as arbitration and judicial determination - "have not been used often enough in major disputes...
...unofficial campaign symbol of Moise Tshombe's new Conaco Party is a smooth, black $50 attaché case. He brought it back from Brussels with him last week, waved it triumphantly to the cheering crowds that lined his two-hour parade route from Ndjili Airport into the capital, displayed it shyly before whirring cameras and popping flashbulbs at his official residence, and probably took it to bed with him that night. The fuss over the attaché case was well-warranted. It contained that most powerful of Congolese magic: money, and the promise of more money to come...
...Bloodier Contention. Settlement of le contentieux meant more than mere money to Tshombe; it doubtless would improve his political survivability as well. With Congo-wide elections promised during the next few months, Moise and his magic black attaché case are certainly the front runners...
...jungle track. A third of the column's 40 vehicles was destroyed, three mercenaries and eight Congolese soldiers were killed, and the column remained pinned down for five days. Clearly the Simbas are better armed and trained than ever before. It will take more than a black attaché case to stop them...