Word: guiana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among these are the relatively high proportion of women victims in some countries. The male to female ratio in French Guiana is 1.5 to 1; Hondurus, 1.7 to 1; Bahamas, 1.8 to 1, and Trinidad...
...Arianespace, the French-led European space consortium, which quickly booked all its flights through 1989. But the European concern could not take on all of NASA's customers, partly because it can handle only about ten lift- offs a year at its launch pads in the jungles of French Guiana...
...telephone identified himself as Tom Denley and said he was recruiting a force of mercenaries to stage a coup in Suriname, a tiny (pop. 400,000) South American country that was formerly Dutch Guiana. Each man, Denley said, would be paid $500 a week during the operation, plus a $1 million bonus if the coup succeeded. Unbeknown to Denley, the man on the other end of the line was an FBI agent...
...even printing plants can be bounced for instant arrival at distant points--the cost of launching replacements is rising because of the U.S.'s launch failures. A few U.S. companies have shifted from the shuttle to Europe's Ariane system, operated by the French from launch pads in French Guiana. Arianespace has raised its prices by nearly one-third, to $35 million a launch, and has at least 29 orders on its books, worth some $1.2 billion. But the consortium has only eight slots open through 1988, so its - ability to lure business from the U.S. is limited...
European space officials watched nervously last week as a gleaming white Ariane 3 rocket awaited the final seconds of countdown on its jungle-ringed launching pad in French Guiana. While the Ariane program has generally been a success, three of its 16 missions since 1979 have ended in costly accidents. This time the European Space Agency's unmanned craft carried a payload of two satellites worth a total of $200 million: G-Star II, owned by the U.S. communications company GTE, and Brasilsat S2, a Brazilian counterpart. The countdown ran smoothly until just 4.9 seconds before ignition, but then...