Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ambassador Samuel Berger, who had been particularly unreceptive to Saigon's demands during earlier talks, had to be packed off to Hawaii. Thieu, under pressure from hard-liners within his own government, wanted guarantees that there would be no recognition in Paris of the Viet Cong and no attempt to impose a coalition regime on Saigon. A break in the impasse finally came on Nov. 9, during a 90-minute meeting at which Bunker suggested that a U.S. statement be prepared offering assurances to Thieu. In the ensuing 2½ weeks, the U.S. statement went through seven drafts before...
...Franco government, and almost anything the regime does is likely to have unpleasant consequences. Having all but hand-picked the defiant Deputies, the generalissimo can hardly slap them en masse behind bars-or expect to find more compliant replacements for them. On the other hand, if "this attempt to help bring about a varying of opinion and the democratic evolution of the country," as one Deputy put it, is allowed to succeed, it could well become the focal point of dissent against Franco's rule...
This month, fulfilling the yearnings and predictions of untold generations, man will attempt to propel himself across 230,000 miles of emptiness in a bold voyage toward a shining and beckoning target: the moon. Before December ends, if all goes well, he will circle the moon and look down from his spaceship at lunar craters and "seas" as little as 70 miles below. Staring up, he will see the dominant feature of the black lunar sky -the blue-green, partly illuminated globe that is his home: the earth...
...where they will land 21 days later. Russian plans, as usual, are cloaked in secrecy. But many Western experts who have pieced together clues from Moscow rumors, recent Soviet space shots and past Soviet behavior are convinced that at least one, and perhaps as many as three cosmonauts will attempt to loop around the moon and return early in December. Although such a shot would be far less sophisticated than the Apollo 8 mission, it would be an undeniable victory for the Soviets...
There are other moon flight worries, most of them centered around the functioning of the Apollo command module's SPS engine. Should the SPS fail to ignite, or should it burn for less than 80 sec. during the attempt to place Apollo in lunar orbit, there would be little difficulty; the spacecraft would simply continue around the moon and be whipped back toward the earth and safety. But if the SPS should fail between the 80-and 110-sec. marks of its scheduled 246-sec. burn, Apollo would enter what NASA euphemistically describes as an "unstable orbit." After rounding...