Word: launching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a U.S. Air Force C-5A transport plane landed in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz to launch the latest battle in America's war on drugs, the far-off town of Trinidad, 250 miles to the northwest, paid little heed. But the next day Trinidad Mayor Pedro Alvarez was summoned to the local Bolivian air force base for some unsettling news. The gringos are coming, he was informed; the base would need another well. Since that day, the tranquil cattle-farming community of Trinidad (pop. 40,000), capital of Bolivia's northeastern Beni region, has not been...
...shrewd editorial stroke, McClatchy brought back Howard Weaver, now 35, a defector from the News's bad old days. Weaver, who had left to launch a "semiunderground" weekly, says McClatchy interviewed him "to find out what kind of bomb thrower I was." A mighty good one, as events proved...
...tape, a transcript of which was released byNASA on yesterday, offered no verbal evidence thatany crew members other than Smith knew anythingwas abnormal prior to his single exclamation 73seconds after launch--the very second that groundcontrollers lost all communication with the craft...
...learned that she had filed a suit seeking $15.1 million from the space agency, specifically naming Lawrence Mulloy, who was then chief of the faulty solid-rocket-booster program. He had argued more forcefully than anyone else against the warnings of others that the cold weather could jeopardize the launch...
...Draft Lee Iacocca for President Committee, some of them experienced political consultants, announced their determination to persuade the bluntspoken 61-year-old auto manufacturer to pursue the Democratic nomination for the presidency. After analyzing the nuances of electoral rules and regulations, the committee members declared that they plan to launch a campaign without their candidate's consent. Their hope was that Iacocca would eventually give in to the pressure of voter support and join the race. "Mr. Iacocca would probably prefer for us to cease and desist," conceded the group's chairman, Michigan State Representative Richard Fitzpatrick. But, he added...