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...Soyuz cosmonauts arrive in the U.S. for a tour. But no reruns of the Apollo-Soyuz space spectacular are possible until the 1980s, when American astronauts again take to orbit aboard the space shuttle, a new generation of reusable craft that launch from a pad and land on a runway...
...also be capable of handling mobile ground-to-air missiles. Among the facilities under construction: three 1,000-ft.-long bunkers for storing missiles, a center for arming Soviet ship-to-ship missiles (something that cannot be done at sea), huge fuel storage facilities, a 13,000-ft.-long runway and two Soviet-manned radio installations. Most of the work has taken place since Podgorny's visit a year...
Both the Somalis and the Russians at Berbera appeared surprised last week by the zeal of Senator Bartlett and the Pentagon specialists who accompanied him. .After landing in 110° heat on a bumpy dirt runway, they set off immediately to inspect the area. A U.S. technician scrambled atop one of nine newly built fuel-storage tanks and whipped out binoculars for a better view. Another sifted through refuse in a men's room at the port, looking for Soviet cigarette butts. The Russians at Berbera, of whom there may be as many as 1,000, were obviously under...
Descending over sparsely populated marshland at the airport's northeastern edge, the blue-and-white airliner roared in, fatally low and short of the runway. Still a full 2,300 ft. from 22-L but otherwise on course, it struck a row of 22-ft. towers supporting the runway approach lights. It clipped three of them. Then, in what may have been a final valiant effort by the pilot to regain control, it momentarily cleared the next three. Finally, it plunged into four more...
...tragedy at Kennedy, however, raises serious questions about the reaction of airport authorities, pilots and air traffic controllers to the wind-shear menace. In this case, at least two pilots had detected the danger and alerted the tower. But no move was made to close the affected runway. Although the ill-fated Eastern pilot had acknowledged his awareness of the danger, he might have been lulled into a belief that it had passed by the successful landing of the two intervening nights. At issue is a longstanding and sensitive dispute over who must decide whether or not to land. With...