Word: missions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small misstep for a technician and an expensive setback for the next mission of the space shuttle Discovery. Last week a hapless worker, whose name has been withheld to protect him from humiliation, tripped on the tail of his lab coat and piled into the exhaust nozzle of a space rocket that is to ferry an important communications satellite into orbit next February. The accident caused a crack in the heat-resistant carbon nozzle that was too serious to be fixed with a simple patch, and NASA will have to replace the entire first stage of the expensive rocket. Total...
...George Bush, Gorbachev mentioned the earthquake briefly, noting that the damage was thought to be "very serious in some places." Some time after that, news of the growing toll reached him. Just after midnight, a visibly shaken Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze summoned the press to the Soviet U.N. mission on Manhattan's East 67th Street and announced that Gorbachev would go home later that day to direct the recovery effort...
...There's a sense of mission to get the message out that there are things which aren't written in German and French which are worthwhile," says Mitchell...
Primarily, those historians saw their mission as righting the historical record of Black America's past, by reexamining studies of slavery and Reconstruction to emphasize the point that Blacks had indeed made their own history...
...that respect, the superpower rivalry remains intense. But it is significant, and encouraging, that the Soviets are relying more on athletes, dancers and diplomats to advance their interests and less on soldiers, KGB infiltrators and guerrillas. Insofar as Gorbachev's mission to New York is meant to persuade the world -- and George Bush -- that the change is real and will continue, he deserves the warm welcome he is likely...