Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Greeting Gorbachev on the tarmac, Haughey opened with "Cead Mile Failte" (100,000 Welcomes), a traditional Irish language phrase. And to an approving smile from Gorbachev, the 63-year-old prime minister added in Russian, "I'm delighted you have arrived in our country...
...shelf. One official close to the Prime Minister claims that India can produce a nuclear bomb "overnight," though Gandhi said in 1986 that it would take "maybe longer than . . . a few weeks" for India to deploy A-weapons. In February 1988 India successfully tested the Prithvi, a 150-mile-range ballistic missile that can carry a payload of 2,000 lbs., more than enough for a nuclear warhead...
...Atlantis is scheduled to send a craft called Magellan on its way to Venus. The space probe will begin orbiting the planet next year, using radar to map its cloud-hidden surface. The best maps now in existence, compiled by Soviet spacecraft, show features as small as a quarter-mile across, but Magellan is expected to do about ten times as well...
...hours after liftoff, Springer and Bagian were to deploy the 24-ton Tracking and Data Relay Satellite. It will then be carried by its own rocket to a 22,300-mile-high orbit to join two older satellites and complete an orbiting network essential for communicating with future space shuttles and with science and military satellites...
Miraculously, the plane never hit the sea. Though both starboard engines were disabled, probably by debris, veteran pilot David Cronin, 58, skillfully reduced altitude and nudged his crippled craft along the 100-mile journey back to Honolulu International Airport. As he touched down at 2:33 a.m., one hour after the plane had taken off, everybody aboard burst into applause and then slid swiftly down the escape chutes. Said passenger Bruce Lampert: "I can tell you that was a long flight back." Afterward, a dozen people were hospitalized...