Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crucial command could be given only during the three minutes that Skylab was within radio range of NASA's tracking station in Santiago, Chile. The coded words were phoned by Houston Flight Controller Cindy Major, 27, to the Santiago center. "Load mark," she said, "one, zero, six, two." The order caused Skylab's adjusting jets to fire briefly, propelling the craft into the wobbling motion. Said Harlan: "We shot our last...
...skein of corruption reached across four continents and featured the bribery of top government officials or members of ruling families in seven countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Chile and Nicaragua. These are the elements of a complaint by the Securities and Exchange Commission against Houston's International Systems & Controls Corp., which surged during the early 1970s by providing services and equipment to help Third World countries develop .their and agriculture...
...caudillo, who enjoys wearing his military uniform with its gold braid and rows of campaign service ribbons. Our century is familiar with such personages: Peron in Argentina, Estrada Cabrera and Ubico in Guatemala, Gomez and Perez Jimenez in Venezuela, Vargas in Brazil, Hernandez Martinez in El Salvador, Ibanez in Chile, Stroessner in Paraguay...
...falling lab, day by day. The room, No. 314, is far plainer than the control center from which the Apollo moon missions were directed. The watch teams receive fresh telemetric data from Skylab whenever it gets within radio range of one of five NASA tracking stations (in Santiago, Chile; Bermuda; Ascension Island; Madrid; and Goldstone, Calif). On these "passes," controllers can still make small adjustments in the space vehicle's position relative to earth. This is possible for only four minutes out of every 90. Says Don McDonald, one team member: "It's 1½ hours of boredom, then four minutes...
...animals by creating a 16,000-acre preserve called Pampa Galeras in the windswept highlands in the southern part of the country. Peru also signed a pact with Bolivia that banned for ten years the hunting of vicuna and the sale of products made from the animal; subsequently, Chile and Argentina joined in the La Paz Convention. In 1973, 51 nations voted to place the vicuña on the endangered-species list and bar it from the commercial market...