Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anderson further has the luck to take over at a time when the always cyclical civilian aircraft industry seems to be starting on an upswing. Although McDonnell Douglas' deliveries of DC-9s and DC-10s will drop from 65 in 1976 to 37 this year, the company has already booked orders for 54 planes to be finished in 1978. Executives and industry analysts expect the upturn to continue. Some airlines have more money to buy planes because traffic is rising and earnings are improving (even Pan Am may report a profit for the first time in nine years...
...space shuttle's historic test began at dawn, when a cherry picker lifted Pilot Fred Haise Jr., 43, a civilian, and Copilot Charles Gordon Fullerton, 40, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, aboard the craft. Two hours later, engines roaring, the 747 mother ship raced down the runway and rose into the air with the Enterprise clinging to its back like a mating insect. Accompanied by five silver T-38 chase planes that drifted around the pair like pilot fish escorting a shark, the odd couple climbed slowly to 8,100 meters (27,000 ft.). At that altitude...
...battlefield nukes can be fired. He does. Scores of heavy artillery pieces are aimed at the invaders. Nuclear devices, each packing the equivalent of ten kilotons (10,000 tons) worth of TNT, halt the aggressors. But in the process, West Germany's cities and factories are leveled, and civilian casualties run into the millions. An American military spokesman, paraphrasing another from the Viet Nam War era, explains, "We had to destroy Germany in order to save...
There are 150,000 Eritreans in Asmara, and every one is a potential saboteur-"our Trojan horse," says one Ethiopian commander, referring to the civilian population. Two weeks ago, the E.L.F. sent a radio message to its units inside Asmara advising them that buses were urgently needed to carry wounded soldiers to a field hospital. The response came 24 hours later: eight large Ethiopian buses were hijacked just after midnight, spirited out of the city and driven to an E.L.F. aid station 20 miles away...
...civil war, which ended with the secession of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). This time the officers show no inclination to stay in power any longer than necessary. In his broadcast to the nation, Zia declared that the army would guarantee elections in October and then return the country to civilian rule...