Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pilots contend that the technology for such a system is at hand, and they cite one "black box" device used successfully by the McDonnell Douglas Corp. on the F4 Phantom jets it produces and tests near St. Louis. The airborne box sounds a Klaxon when a Phantom pilot is on a collision course with another plane and even tells him whether to go up, down, left or right. Simultaneous and opposite orders go to the other approaching pilot. But the device is expensive (up to $15,000 by one estimate...
...sudden appearance of a Cessna 172 in the flight path of a Boeing 727 last week was the kind of disaster that commercial airline pilots dread, and all too many of them can describe near escapes in similar situations. Despite the statistical evidence that air travel is constantly becoming safer, America's airspace is getting more and more crowded. Last year there were 187,473 nonmilitary aircraft darkening the nation's skies, of which only 2,473, or 1.3%, were commercial airliners...
...enjoy subsidized rents that average $40 a month along with more generous income tax deductions than other Israelis receive. Evacuation ought to be financially easier for many southerners, but they are as bitter about it as Israelis in the north. Says Shimon Eluz, 35, a painting contractor who settled near Sharm el Sheikh because he loved skin diving in the deep-blue waters: "It seems to me that Israel paid a high price for the chance to get peace. Why should we give up all of Sinai? God forbid, Sadat can take back everything and then stab a knife...
...Kissinger tried to be clever with Smith, and he failed too. Don't try to be clever with Smith. Deal with him on the ground he has chosen: power. Gather power and overthrow him." Then, as the warm winds ruffled the coconut palms at his ocean-front home near Dar es Salaam, Nyerere raised a grim alternative. "Otherwise." he said, "we are left only with the fighting. We will back the nationalists and fight to the end. We have no choice...
...greatest irritants to Philippine sensibilities involve the U.S. bases. Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay naval facility are bastions of affluence that contrast painfully with the poverty and squalor near by. Filipinos are critical of the PX mentality that prevails on these military reservations. At Clark an Olympic-size pool, 18-hole golf course, three movie theaters and 14 base exchange stores serve the 20,000 people who live there. Until U.S. and Philippine authorities cracked down this year, too much of the tax-free stereo equipment, perfume, potato chips and liquor sold at the exchange stores ended...