Word: fiascos
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...power beyond Beirut, there seemed to be no mission for the troops except as a symbolic presence. George Ball, who was Under Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson, expresses the dilemma that such a situation creates: "God knows we might have learned from our tragic Viet Nam fiasco that, as a great power, we should deploy our troops only where they are vitally needed and it is clear they can be effectively used ... [otherwise] their bitter plight will exhibit not America's strength but its impotence...
...send up Progress 18 was regarded as an encouraging sign for the spacemen. Said veteran Soviet Space Watcher James Oberg (Red Star in Orbit): "There seems to be little real anxiety in mission control." However, as Oberg notes, Salyut's steering problems, combined with the launch-pad fiasco, show that the Soviets cannot yet manage replacement of crews on a regular, scheduled basis. Such a capability is a prerequisite for operating a permanent orbital station...
President Reagan is caught between a rock and a hard place. The public demands action--and with the election approaching. Reagan must realize his vulnerability, particularly if he recalls how much his election was helped by Jimmy Carter's Iran fiasco. And the president, who has made a political career out of talking tough, has never yet been forced to back up his rhetoric with deeds. He must resist the temptation...
...Carter in particular, and for the U.S. in general, the desert debacle was a military and political fiasco. A once dominant military machine, first humbled in its agonizing standoff in Viet Nam, now looked incapable of keeping its aircraft aloft even when no enemy knew they were there, and even incapable of keeping them from crashing into each other despite four months of practice for their mission...
...which is both the most widely read of West Germany's four major pictorial magazines and the only one with serious, if erratic, journalistic ambitions. Stern was thrust into international notoriety in April as the publisher and purveyor of forged diaries purportedly written by Adolf Hitler. The diaries fiasco, which led to the ouster of two top editors, has cost the magazine about 10% of its circulation, an estimated $3.8 million in circulation and advertising income, and much of its credibility among fellow reporters...