Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly differ more in taste, temperament and approach to life. De Gaulle believed in the imperious exercise of power; Pompidou has promised to serve the nation as an "arbiter." De Gaulle spoke 19th century French and believed in the magic of being mysterious and aloof. Pompidou mingles easily with jet-setters and peasants alike, a ubiquitous cigarette dangling off-center on his lower lip. De Gaulle liked best the France of the history books. Pompidou lives each day as it comes, reveling in the hurly-burly of politics and high finance, equally at ease in galleries of modern...
...Moscow, for the first time since World War II, the usual parade was denuded of troops, tanks, rockets and jet fighter planes. As civilians marched with flowers and banners, and occasionally danced in the streets, Party Boss Brezhnev gave a bland, relaxed speech-and that was it. (Washington observers, though, wondered whether a military parade had been held in Khabarovsk, near the uneasy Chinese border.) In Prague, the parade itself was canceled and the populace was gently turned away from the statue of King Wenceslas in the main square, which has become a symbol of Czechoslovak resistance...
...recognize him. "Let him in," barked an officer. "He is the President." Army Chief Alfredo Ovando, who with Barrientos had overthrown Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1964 (Barrientos won an election in 1966), was in Washington on a visit. The U.S. Air Force immediately offered him a C140 jet to fly home quickly. While Siles and Ovando and other dignitaries escorted Barrientos' body to La Paz Cathedral, Bolivians mourning the past also began to worry about the future...
Risks Remain. Pentagon officials argued that defense of the lumbering spy planes requires many jet fighters. Ostensibly, the size and power of TF-71 were intended to discourage North Korea from further adventurism. But there was also a domestic political consideration. During the presidential campaign, Nixon had maintained that the U.S. should react to small provocations lest they grow into large incidents. There were plenty of hawks around last week to remind him of that remark...
...above and below the fuselage. Four piston engines give it a cruising speed of only 300 m.p.h., but it has immense range. It can fly 6,500 miles, staying aloft for more than 20 hours-which enables it to monitor communications longer and more intensively than could a speedier jet...