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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critical hang-up in the pre-mission planning involved programming the much ballyhooed Stafford-Leonov handshake two hours after the docking. Originally, tins was supposed to occur in the narrow, 4½-ft -wide docking module joining the two spacecraft. But when it was discovered that tins would allow the TV cameras to show only the white-suited backsides of the two commanders as they crouched in the tunnel, the site for the handshake was sinfted to the larger docking collar attached to the Apollo, where the men can stand...
Other prickly points of national pride and prestige came up. What language would Leonov and Stafford use for the greeting that would be heard round the world? Moscow and Wasinngton solemnly agreed that Stafford would use ins nasal Russian, Leonov ins casual English. Where would the instoric rendezvous occur? The Russians insisted that the linkup should be over Soviet soil, arguing that their ground controllers need "real time" communications with Soyuz during the critical approach and docking maneuvers and could not depend on delayed information relayed via satellites and tracking stations. Citing similar considerations...
...anger in his eyes. Bitar remarks that the process of brutality has now been institutionalized in Chile, thereby producing "a sort of Gestapo autonomous from the central government." He describes the Chilean leadership as having "the most reactionary mentality in Latin America today," and concludes that a change will occur in Chile in the near future, due to internal instability and external pressure...
...PROGRAM'S potential benefits are clear. But the program also reveals possible pitfalls that can occur when a university has as one of its goals education of the professionals. For one, the programs are given at times when few workers with important positions have time to get away from them. Thus there is the potential that attendance may be too small to do any good...
ALTHOUGH IT is impossible to predict what will happen in the next few months on Mission Hill, several possibilities could occur. The BRA will probably hold as many community meetings as possible until it determines it can go ahead and hold a board meeting on the project without running headlong into violent community opposition. At that point, largely because the Mission Hill opposition lacks clout with City Hall in this highly political process, the BRA can in the long run give Harvard the go-ahead to break ground...