Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rocket-firing helicopters pound away at North Vietnamese gunners still dug into surrounding hills. Once the guns were silenced, Air Cavalrymen were lifted in to seize the high ground around the base. But the Marines inside Khe Sanh drew first blood in that mission. Breaking out of their own perimeter for the first time since the siege began, they stormed and took Hill 471, two miles from their base...
Mysterious Breakup. When controllers ordered the third-stage engine to restart-in an effort to shove it from its parking orbit to a distance of 320,000 miles on a simulated moon trip- nothing happened. Still attempting to salvage the mission, the controllers next separated Apollo 6 from the dead third stage and used the spacecraft's engine to push it to an altitude of 13 822 miles. From that height, it plunged back into the atmosphere and parachuted to a safe landing and recovery in the Pacific Ocean. Later, NASA reported the orbiting third stage mysteriously broke into...
...Viet Nam, the F-l 11 flew right into another, even more serious controversy. On only the third and sixth days of combat, two of the $6,000,000 planes went down in Southeast Asia. One of them failed to return to its base in Thailand on a bombing mission to North Viet Nam; the other crashed in Thailand...
...Alioto has come across like John Lindsay, Western style. Right off the bat he raised the hopes of the city's minorities. After his inauguration at the glittering San Francisco Opera House in January, Alioto scheduled receptions in the predominantly Negro Hunters Point-Bayview section and the Mission District (Mexican-Americans, Filipinos, American Indians). Humming operatic airs, sipping Campari and soda or playing the violin, he wowed the crowds. "The ghetto never goes to the Opera House," he said, "so we'll take the inaugural to the ghetto...
...MISSION by Heinrich Boll. 207 pages. McGraw-Hill...