Word: ilyushin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah deliberately edging his nation toward Communism, or is he just flirting harmlessly and neutrally at a safe distance outside the Soviet orbit? With considerable fanfare, he has added six Ilyushin planes to his little national airline, approved a new technical-aid pact with Moscow, and contracted for Soviet surveyors on the Volta River. But no publicity at all has been given to the last, most dangerous commodity just in from Russia: guns and ammunition by the thousands of tons...
...Yuri Gagarin really the first spaceman? French Correspondent Edouard Bobrowski, just back from Moscow, and speaking over France's state-owned radio, declared that Gagarin was the second. The first spaceman, said Bobrowski, was Sergei Ilyushin, son of Russia's famed aircraft designer. Said Bobrowski: "Sergei Ilyushin is a tough boy, a kind of Soviet Gil Delamare [French parachute jumper, stock-car racer and stuntman], and his father's position permitted him to do anything he wished. He absolutely wanted to be the first one to reach the cosmic barriers. Authorization was given him through...
...tracking stations offered no confirmation of a pre-Yuri space flight-nor was one likely, for two reasons. The West confirms only those shots the Russians have documented in order to keep secret just how effectively the worldwide Western tracking net functions. And the Russians might well have calculated Ilyushin's first orbit as carefully as they did Gagarin's, which artfully swung around the earth in a pattern that avoided the major Western tracking outposts. In fact; the West saw neither initial orbit-but later picked up Gagarin's empty rocket casing still orbiting after...
...Trades Union Congress, who has sold Nkrumah on the idea of Communist-style unionism, and is trying to muscle in on union movements in Nigeria and other African countries. Another leftist at the top: Minister of Transport Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, who made a deal with Moscow for six Ilyushin airliners. Swirling uncertainly among the blacks is British Marxist Geoffrey Bing, who, as Nkrumah's Attorney General, designed the Preventive Detention Act under which more than 100 opposition politicians have been jailed without trial...
...trip had all the trappings of a state visit, all the secrecy of a Communist plot. At Pnompenh airport, Ambassador Abramov and Chinese Communist Ambassador Wang Yu-ping huddled about the ramp of the twin-engined Ilyushin-14 warned that the plane would have to fly "very high" and be blacked out. Reason: "U.S. jets" might try to shoot it down. At Hanoi that night. North Viet Nam Premier Pham Van Dong turned out at the runway with a cluster of pretty little girls bearing flowers, then drove Prince Souvanna off to the state guesthouse in a long cortege...