Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drew an ovation when he touched, ever so lightly, on the delicate topic of antiwar protests. "In evaluating the enemy strategy, it is evident to me that he believes our Achilles heel is our resolve," said Westmoreland. "Your continued strong support is vital to the success of our mission." But he roused his audience to its greatest enthusiasm when, toward the very end, he declared forcefully: "Backed at home by resolve, confidence, patience, determination and continued support, we will prevail in Viet Nam over the Communist aggressor...
...Hawaii to an Air Force base near West Point, he was caught in the political crossfire. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright charged that he had been brought back to "shut up" dissent on the war. The New York Post called his trip a "search-and-destroy" mission laid on by the President against the antiwar faction. Complained Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy: "I have grave reservations about using a field commander on active duty as an instrument to make a case which is not only military but also political...
...have never fought in a conflict essentially their own, even though they may have been deeply committed to the principles at stake. They fought for Britain in the Boer War and the two World Wars, for the U.N. in Korea. Canadian soldiers have served in every U.N. peace-keeping mission except West New Guinea, and Canada is still a member of the ectoplasmic International Control Commission in Viet Nam. But despite its diplomatic aspirations, Canada carries little real weight in international affairs. It has never greatly antagonized anyone in the world-nor greatly influenced anyone, either...
There was good reason to believe that Komarov's ill-fated flight had been planned as Phase 1 of a highly ambitious mission. Unofficial reports from Moscow had indicated that Soyuz would be joined in orbit by another spacecraft carrying several men and that the two ships would attempt to rendezvous, dock, exchange crews and set up an orbiting space station. There was speculation that the second ship had a restartable engine that would push the joined ships as far out as 50,000 miles-a first step toward a flight later this year in which a manned Russian...
Struggling with his controls, Komarov apparently tried to abort his mission on both the 16th and 17th revolutions, which took him close to his planned landing site in central Russia. But Soyuz was probably still tumbling, and Komarov could not use his retrorockets. Unless an orbiting spacecraft is stabilized and properly oriented when the retrorockets are fired, it can shoot farther into space or re-enter the atmosphere improperly and burn...