Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high points: a space station longer than a football field orbiting 220 miles above the earth; permanent living quarters on the near side of the moon constructed out of lunar metals and used as a base for mining oxygen-rich moon rocks; then, sometime during the 21st century, a manned mission to Mars, at least a yearlong, 35 million-mile voyage. "It is humanity's destiny to strive, to seek and to find," declared the President, "and America's destiny to lead...
...took a unique combination of fate and circumstance last week to produce a near miracle of survival in the midst of a horrible tragedy. When a stricken United Airlines DC-10 failed by seconds to achieve a level emergency landing and plowed into the earth only yards short of a runway at Sioux Gateway Airport, 110 passengers and crew members died, the tenth highest airplane toll in U.S. history. But, astonishingly, 186 lived through the crash and its fiery aftermath. Some even walked away. Never before had selecting a seat been such a fateful decision. Almost every passenger...
...former Major General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez had reason to hope for clemency from his comrade of 30 years, Fidel Castro. It did not come. At dawn last Thursday, Ochoa, 57, and three other former army officers convicted only 16 days earlier of drug trafficking were executed by firing squad near Havana...
While the easy availability of firearms in the U.S. has helped produce an epidemic of violent deaths, the affliction is not uniquely American. Last week in the French village of Luxiol, near the Swiss border, a farmer with a history of mental illness managed to obtain a hunting gun and went on a shooting spree that lasted 30 minutes. When the rampage was over, Christian Dornier, 31, had murdered 14 people, including his mother and sister, and wounded his father and eight others...
...neighboring communities, picking off people along the way. One villager shot Dornier in the neck with a rifle, but that did not stop him. Eventually captured by police, Dornier was taken to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment. On Friday he was transferred to a prison hospital near Paris, where he was reported in stable condition. Said Luxiol Mayor Roger Clausse, whose five- year-old niece was among the dead: "It's appalling, the mountain of sorrow that he has caused...