Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Man to Man. Wednesday morning, X Ray proudly theirs, "the First Team" split into two units and moved on. For one unit, some 500 men from the 5th and 7th Regiments, it was a move toward near disaster. Barely three miles north of X Ray, the long column crossed the...
Kahn's abstract analysis fits only those international crises which are similarly "abstract;" the direct confrontations between nuclear superpowers which revolve around relatively non-ideological issues such as Berlin or missiles in Cuba. The danger, which we see unfolding in Vietnam, is that Kahn's approach will be used in...
Kahn's idea of the "rational" use of force shows the inadequacy of his approach. For Kahn, the criterion of "rationality" is not morality, justice, or even a judgment on the ends for which force is employed. "Rationality" is merely a degree of "reasonable control," as assurance that violence will...
At 6:03 a.m., the burning hulk sank in 400 fathoms (2,400 ft.) of the Bahamas' Northwest Providence Channel. At last count, 458 persons had lived through the disaster; 91 had died. The cause of the blaze was a mystery. All that remained of the Yarmouth Castle was...
Three threads connect the three dis asters. Each of the fatal flights originated from La Guardia Airport. All were approaching airports. And all three 727s crashed at night. Neither the Federal Aviation Agency, which alone has the authority to ground airplanes, nor the airlines, which have 195 of them in...