Word: ship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...different bird from the U.S. species. Its wing angle and nose are sharper, perhaps giving it greater maneuverability. More important, as demonstrated last week, it is set % up for fully automated flight. Onboard computers can guide it through re- entry to the earth's atmosphere and landing. The ship is also capable of manned flight, carrying up to ten people, but the Soviets plan at least one more unmanned shot before putting a crew on board. "Just as we were scared to death by Chernobyl," explains a Western diplomat in Moscow, "they were scared to death when Challenger blew...
...another ritual that mocked dignity. But it was, perhaps, that magnificent plane that began to reclaim the majesty of the presidency. With the body of Kennedy onboard, the new President invested formally, Colonel James Swindal taxied his plane out on the emptied runway of Love Field. The ship paused in lonely splendor, then lifted off into a blue sky, clean and beautiful even in that mournful flight...
...unite behind Jesse Jackson, who should be the de facto front-runner for the next three years. But Jackson will not win the nomination. Although most Jackson supporters are ardent, the marginal supporters--myself included--who chose him only because of the mediocrity of the 1988 field will jump ship if offered a more attractive candidate...
...neck and neck in the first quarter, the Crimson dove ahead. It drew fouls left and right and reaped 42 percent of its goals on power plays. Washington and Lee, after failing to answer five Harvard goals and losing one of their key players to penalties, prepared to jump ship...
...Male and commanded navy warships to head toward Maldivian waters. Paratroopers arrived less than twelve hours later, landing aboard two Soviet-built IL-76 transport aircraft at the national airport on Hulule, a few hundred yards off Male. Within minutes the mercenaries began racing back to their mother ship. On Sunday the mercenaries surrendered after an Indian frigate fired on the freighter...