Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eban: This was a responsible decision by our Cabinet. History will decide. In the short term, the decision not to launch a pre-emptive strike was very costly in human life and in acute tactical disadvantages. In the longer view, we have left no doubt about Egyptian and Syrian responsibility for shattering the ceasefire. This may be important for Israel's position in the international community...
...into an official's launch early in the race, and stopped rowing for a minute," bowman Fellows said. "I thought we were...
...calls to valor followed by a void led to a kind of black humor. One joke that circulated through the capital had Sadat ordering an attack and his commanders offering up an excuse for every day of the week. Saturday's excuse, ironically: it was scarcely proper to launch an attack against Israel on the Jewish sabbath...
...boredom, restlessness and loneliness of long space journeys, the astronauts recommended a heavy load of useful work on future flights. That activity may be even more important to the Skylab 3 crew. At week's end, NASA was considering extending Skylab 3's mission-scheduled for launch Nov. 11-from the 56 days originally planned to 70. That would give the astronauts more time to observe the newly discovered Comet Kohoutek-perhaps the brightest of the century-as it makes its fiery pass around the sun in December and January...
...noted that the rockets that formerly carried aloft Sputnik and Telstar now are being used to launch nuclear warheads...