Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Words. Only a few weeks ago, Southeast Asia evoked only bland smiles from most U.S. officials. Reason: President Johnson, for understandable political reasons, had decided to continue old policies, to let things slide-without a crash landing-until after November. Things slid, all right-almost to the bottom of the slide...
...scientists and military leaders were thinking about little else but the feasibility of a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile. Yet because of the arguments-like Bush's-against it, it was not until May 1954, just ten years ago next week, that the Air Force launched a crash program to develop the Atlas ICBM...
...task force of investigators began probing for the cause of the crash. Over and over again they played back a tape-recording of the last radio transmission to Oakland Control. The only clue, they felt, lay in the garbled call from the plane. Finally, with special playback equipment, the garble began to make sense. It was the voice of the pilot or copilot. He had shouted, "I've been shot! I've been shot! Oh God! Help!" There was nothing else...
...crash site searchers found a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum with six empty shells in its chambers. In the first hours of study, there was no way to tell whether both the pilot and copilot had been shot, or just one of the men, or whether it was bullet damage that had destroyed the mechanism operating the plane's control surfaces...
Judge Burger offers a solution: independent boards in each city that would review police illegalities, much as expert investigating teams move in after a plane crash. Consisting mainly of lawyers, but also including policemen, Burger's boards would have the power of subpoena and the authority to recommend disciplinary action. The overriding purpose would not be to subvert the suppression doctrine but to train every policeman to make arrests that will hold up in court...