Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little or no control over the determined Katanga forces. It was now apparent that the U.N. personnel could reach the town only by using force. Then came word that Katangese units were moving up to encircle the airport itself, and one of Katanga's Dornier planes flew over the field. Certain that an attack against the U.N. was imminent, Smith turned to the U.N.'s military commander in Katanga. India's Brigadier K.A.S. Raja, and told him: "Matters are in your hands now. Deal with the roadblock by military means...
...rockets came down on dry land at the Army's White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico's arid Tularosa Basin north of El Paso. But when the Air Force became the principal U.S. rocket-launching agency, it set up shop at Cape Canaveral and flew its long-range missiles over the ocean. The Russians stuck to the land, seem to have found no special difficulty in bringing their spacecraft down on solid ground. Eventually, argues the Holloman Bulletin, the U.S. will have to do the same. Large manned spaceships returning from orbit or the moon...
...draft treaty that offered an immediate ban on all nuclear tests-but made no provision for inspection or international control teams. Ar thur Dean dismissed the proposals as "completely, totally, absolutely unsatisfactory and unacceptable." At midweek, Dean left his deputy, Charles C. Stelle, in charge of the futile talks, flew home to report to President Kennedy...
...Trujillos flew out of Ciudad Trujillo, two principal opposition leaders-the National Civic Union's Viriato Fiallo and the 14th of June's Manuel Tavárez-flew in from San Juan. They found the road from airport to city a sea of celebrators, flinging flowers, weeping, clapping hands, tooting whistles. At the bridge that forms the main entrance to the city, more than 100,000 people joyfully stopped the caravan...
...Outparts. Last week Diefenbaker flew to Newfoundland, stumping through remote outparts where no Prime Minister had ever visited before. Lester Pearson blew into the small Ontario pulp and paper town of Espanola, Ont. (pop. 5,000) to be nominated once again as Espanola's Member of Parliament. Said he earlier in the week: "Under Liberal governments in the postwar years, our economic record was the envy of the world. Now, our friends in other countries ask, 'What has happened to Canada?' It is Tory government that has happened-a wrong the people will soon make right...