Word: missions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have been involved in planning for the mission, which is designed to enable astronomers to take high resolution x-ray photographs...
...coveted Indian lands dynamited villages, gave the Indians food laced with arsenic and inoculated entire tribes with smallpox virus. If the Indians lose their land, "there will be no Indians left in 30 years," said Bishop Tomas Balduíno, the head of the Roman Catholic Church's mission to the Indians. "The emancipation of Brazil's Indians is a means of committing genocide, this time without dirtying anyone's hands with guns or poison...
...addition to CFA, groups at MIT, Columbia University and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland comprise the consortium that will direct the mission, which may run as long as three years...
...goes according to plan, the HEAO-B will be launched from Cape Kennedy by an Atlas-Centaur rocket shortly after 12:23 a.m. Monday. HEAO-B has no back-up, so a safe launch is essential to the mission's success...
...Teng wound up his historic visit at week's end, it seemed that his mission had not been an unalloyed triumph after all. Echoing the sentiments of many Tokyo political analysts and wary businessmen, the Japan Times said: "Teng charmed many people here, but worries persist that China's warmth may not only reduce our foreign policy options, but also trap us in an economic quagmire, rather than grant us the benefits of a combined market of 1 billion Chinese people." Still, that may be the price that Japan will have to pay, as it joins its neighbor...