Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decides to fake the Mars landing in a TV studio rather than risk failure and a cutoff of appropriations. Predictably, the mad scientist's plans go wrong, wrong, wrong. Capricorn One turns into a vivid chase involving NASA henchmen, an investigative reporter (Elliott Gould), a crop-dusting pilot (Telly Savalas) and a couple of bloodsucking desert reptiles...
...outset, said refugees from Kolwezi, the rebels appeared to be tough and well regimented; they also knew their business. Harold Amstutz, of Portsmouth, Va., a pilot for the American Methodist mission in the city, radioed news of the invasion on the first day of the attack. The next time he tried to broadcast from his house, guerrillas swarmed through the neighborhood, banging on doors and shouting "Missionary! Missionary!" in an effort to locate Amstutz and his radio. Said the pilot: "They must have had good equipment, including a direction finder, to pick up my transmission that quickly...
...level campaign of harassment that Zaïre's 40,000-man army will find hard to counter. Late last week F.N.L.C. troops made probing attacks on two towns near the Angolan border, about 300 miles from Kinshasa. Surveying the sad ruins of Kolwezi, a Belgian pilot may have put it best. "It is not finished," he said. "It will only start...
...Shafer, 24, who dropped out after the first week of his junior year, hitched a trailer to his car and headed for California. Two years later he was back in school, still eager to pursue medicine but also possessing some valuable souvenirs of his stop-out period, including a pilot's license, a fair knowledge of American literature, and the ownership of a computer software firm that grossed $300,000 last year...
...Loose (NBC). About three girls who share a Honolulu condominium ... In the pilot, a nursery school teacher falls for a priest she meets...