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...same training -rated good by Western experts-as those in the Soviet military. They also have to undergo a physical examination before each flight. As for its planes, the airline itself clearly has doubts about one of them. All Antonov-10 aircraft, formerly workhorses of the Aeroflot domestic fleet, have been removed from passenger service since the Ukraine crash...
...minimum of cooperation from the Communists. If the war was still raging on Inauguration Day, McGovern would stop the bombing and other "acts of force," halt the flow of supplies to Saigon and begin a 90-day withdrawal of U.S. forces-keeping U.S. airbases in Thailand open and Seventh Fleet ships on station until Hanoi released the 539 American P.O.W.s and helped to account for the 1,143 servicemen listed as missing in action. McGovern would join in a postwar reconstruction effort (as Nixon has also proposed to do), but he would take no part in organizing Saigon...
...ranks of shipbuilding countries. Since the huge construction rush in World War II, yards have been kept afloat mainly by repair work and Navy orders. The result was bluntly described to TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan by Maritime Administrator Robert J. Blackwell: "We are faced with a sorely depleted fleet...
THERE ARE INTERVIEWS with statesmen, and they are asked about policy decisions, but they themselves demonstrate how fundamentally low-keyed and human the workings of history are. Events like the British destruction of the French fleet are examined in terms of personal reactions by the French and English. As example, Major-General Edward Spears recalls seeing French sailors flirting with some English girls in Hyde Park while, as he knew, their compatriots were being attacked in the Mediterranean...
...airbases in Thailand would be closed and the U.S. fleet would be transferred away from the South China...