Word: finding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little uneasy. We have no handle on this one yet. Was it aging metal in a high-time machine? Was it stress? And what kind of stress? Was it quality control of the metal? And if we find out, what kind of fix can we ask to have made? We don't know...
...wing. They are even studying the possibility of "acoustical fatigue," the damage to metal that can be caused by oscillations of sound frequencies generated by the DC-10's engine and its associated metal structures. More than 100 FAA investigators are working with McDonnell Douglas to find the reasons for the problems. Other experts are subjecting pylons to stress, then tearing them down to see what damage might have been caused...
...would be randomly shifted by truck at night among 4,000 silos. One difficulty is that this plan would make it hard for the Soviets to verify, as SALT requires, that the U.S. is not cheating on the number of missiles actually in the holes. Also, if the Soviets find which holes contain missiles and then launch an attack, it would take too long to move the missiles...
...UNlTA's objectives: We will approach step by step the day when the Cubans and Russians find that it is impossible for them to stay any longer. That will be our first victory. From there, we will be ready to talk with the M.P.L.A. and to explain, even if it takes us years, that we have at last proved that foreign interference of that kind does not solve any problems. Ultimately, we want democratic elections and a coalition government between UNITA, M.P.L.A. and the F.N.L.A...
...unity in obedience to me.' " The NDF, which is led by a grandson of onetime Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, contrasted the Ayatullah's professed support for freedom of the press with the censorship and book burning that has been endemic since the revolution. The document concluded: "Today we find that your leadership is not as it once...