Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another intensive search located the wreckage of a high-altitude U-2 reconnaissance plane that disappeared after leaving Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base, presumably on a surveillance mission over Cuba. The Pentagon said that the pilot, Captain Robert D. Hickman, 32, had apparently lost consciousness over the Caribbean, and that the U-2 had probably been guided by its automatic pilot until it ran out of fuel. Hickman's body was found in the debris on a rugged plateau in west-central Bolivia...
Suddenly he was gone again. Two Chinese diplomats had loaded him onto a hospital stretcher and carried him to the Chinese mission, where police were powerless to enter. The Dutch Foreign Ministry immediately protested the kidnaping, but got only silence from Charge d'Affaires Li En-chiu. After two days, the protests gave way to an ultimatum that the Chinese release their prisoner. Too late. "I am afraid I cannot help you," Li declared. "Unfortunately, Mr. Hsu died in my office...
Incensed, the Dutch government immediately declared Li persona non grata, gave him 24 hours to leave the country. Amid reports that the murdered Hsu had been trying to defect to the West, Dutch police surrounded the Chinese mission in order to question any of his fellow welding delegates who might try to leave. None...
...Legal Aid Society campaign to affirm that public intoxication alone is no cause for arrest without actual disorderly conduct. Were the bums pleased with this victory for humane treatment? Indeed not: they are clamoring for the good old days. "They want to get taken in," reported the Bowery Mission's Rev. Herbert Maynard last week. "They want to get cleaned up and get some food. If they can get ten days, they think they can get straightened...
...high, far-flung orbit also placed the coupled craft in position to begin a rendezvous with a second target: Agena 8, lifeless but still riding on a nearly circular orbit after its role in the aborted Gemini 8 mission four months earlier. At first, last week's Gemini-Agena was 3,220 miles ahead of Agena 8; during the next several hours, the dead target ship-revolving around the earth every 99 minutes, compared to 101 minutes for Gemini-Agena-slowly passed the sleeping astronauts...