Word: launching
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Democrats have long tried to attack Reagan the man, and yet his image as president remains untarnished. They have yet to launch a sustained attack against Reagan the president. When Democrats dismiss Reagan as a "buffoon," they simply demonstrate their ignorance of the powerful changes in public opinion that helped Reagan win office and have supported a string of successes during his administration...
...clearly was. Pressed, he finally conceded, "If I had heard the alarms that have been expressed in this room this week before the flight, I certainly would have been concerned. Yes sir." Nonetheless he insisted later at a press conference, "I think it was a sound decision to launch...
...commissioners also zeroed in on the icy pad conditions that prompted Rockwell to oppose the launch. While the ice was apparently unrelated to the cause of the tragedy, the commissioners regarded NASA's reaction to that opposition as more evidence of the space agency's failure to heed warnings. Viewing the pad by television from his company's launch-support center in Downey, Calif., Rocco Petrone, president of Rockwell's space transportation and systems group, had been alarmed about the ice-encrusted gantry. He telephoned Robert Glaysher, a Rockwell vice president at the Cape, and told him that Rockwell could...
...possibility, concluded that the ice did not pose a danger and Rockwell's position in effect was dismissed. But once again there had been an apparent misunderstanding about the degree of opposition to proceeding. Testified Aldrich: "A concern was voiced (by Rockwell) but they didn't say 'Don't launch.' " Rogers found this another "serious deficiency in the process...
...Scowcroft commission thought that if both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. built small mobile missiles, neither side would feel tempted to launch (or feel threatened by) a first strike. But the Administration last fall suddenly proposed in Geneva that all mobile missiles be banned. Moscow is developing two types of mobile missiles that the Pentagon fears will add dangerously to Soviet striking power...