Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army did nothing to lessen the mystery. The killing was said to have occurred June 20 near the Special Forces headquarters at Nha Trang, 200 miles northeast of Saigon. Rheault was relieved of his command on July 21. Who the victim was, what his connections with the war might have been, who brought the charges - all these facts remained secret. Regular military investigating units professed to have no knowledge of the incident, leading to conjecture that the case involved a secret agency, possibly the CIA. This speculation was supported by the fact that at least three of the Green Berets...
...outburst shocked Kaunda, who told the justices he was "awfully sorry." His apologies came too late. Skinner flew off to London on "indefinite sick leave," and Evans left for Australia. Though Skinner later said he might return to Zambia, a third justice also announced his resignation. Speculation in Zambia was that the remaining four might leave the bench by the end of the year. The High Court crisis badly unsettled Zambia's white residents, who count on the white judiciary as a safeguard against the excesses of black nationalism. The value of private homes in Lusaka has dropped...
...lunar dust and rock chips under a 300,000-power microscope and found no evidence of lunar organisms, either living or fossilized. Another chemist did detect a trace of carbon, an element essential to life. But it was mainly volatile hydrocarbons that are familiar ingredients of lubricating oil; they might well have come from tools, or from the cabinets in which the samples had been placed...
Biological Origin. Pimentel conceded that the gases he detected might have been produced on Mars by such nonbiological processes as "outgassing" from Mars' interior. But, he added, "One cannot restrain the speculation that the gases might be of biological origin." If that is the case, he theorized, they may have been produced by organisms that found shelter in a relatively hospitable ( -94°F.) region near the edge of Mars' southern polar cap, where Mariner 7 concentrated its cameras and instruments. There, he said, they might have drawn water from the polar ice and protection from...
...intelligent beings, as some scientists once believed, but apparently rough, uneven splotches that lose their geometric-looking form on closer examination. Far from being the outpost of an advanced civilization, Mars more and more seems to be something of a primordial version of the earth, as it might have been billions of years ago. Says Caltech Geologist Robert Sharp: "We are looking at what could be baby pictures of the earth...