Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven, the ungainly olive-drab helicopters swoop and buzz like dragonflies. Night and day they churn above the Army Aviation Center at Fort Rucker. They blast the wire-grass country with rockets, machine-gun slugs and grenades. They execute intricate maneuvers high in the sky and inches off the ground, turning once-tranquil skies into some of the world's most congested airspace...
American's Flight 383 from New York was approaching Cincinnati from the Kentucky side of the Ohio River. In a heavy rain squall, the pilot momentarily lost sight of the ground as he turned to line up with the runway. A wingtip snagged a nearby slope, slamming the plane down with such force that wreckage was strewn over a 400-sq. yd. area. Though local residents pulled four trapped passengers to safety, 58 others died in the flames...
...woman passenger forced open an emergency door, and, after diving headfirst onto the wing, dropped to the ground. Others followed; 50, including the entire crew of six, survived-three without a scratch. Forty-one others in the rear of the plane died-many as they pushed in panic toward the exits...
Three threads connect the three dis asters. Each of the fatal flights originated from La Guardia Airport. All were approaching airports. And all three 727s crashed at night. Neither the Federal Aviation Agency, which alone has the authority to ground airplanes, nor the airlines, which have 195 of them in service, has detected any structural flaws in the 727, the most thoroughly tested airliner in U.S. history. Early analyses of the Cincinnati and Salt Lake crashes indicate possible pilot error; the Chicago disaster is still a mystery (the plane's flight recorder has not yet been recovered from Lake...
Wilson had tried everything short of surrender to head the Rhodesians off. He had invited Smith to London, gone himself to Salisbury, and kept up a steady barrage of proposals and notes in an effort to find some common ground. But always Smith had refused even to consider the one basic condition under which Britain would gladly have granted the independence he demanded: a guarantee of eventual African rule. He could hardly have done so, since his government is dedicated to one simple principle: the indefinite preservation of white rule...