Word: ghali
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Name & Number. The buzzing began last Sept. 23, when Brigadier General Don D. Flickinger of the Air Research and Development Command ventured that two Russians aboard a space vehicle had been "clobbered" before they had gone into full orbit. Three months later, Chicago Daily News Correspondent Paul Ghali reported from Bern that in early October the Russians had fired off a capsule containing a man but that the capsule had failed to separate from its rocket, roasting the astronaut alive. By Ghali's account (TIME, Dec. 19), it was this failure, not the "airplane accident" reported by Moscow, that...
...hand-picked chief of Soviet Missile Forces. Marshal Mitrofan I. Nedelin, had died in an "airplane accident." Last week two reports from Europe offered different versions of what had really happened. ^ The first report, sent from Switzerland by the Chicago Daily News's veteran correspondent Paul Ghali and attributed to "foreign diplomats in Bern," said the Russians had actually rocketed a manned capsule into space sometime in early October. "But the Russian scientists on the ground were unable to separate the container from its vehicle," the report went on. "Disintegration of the vehicle and the passenger followed." Marshal Nedelin...