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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happened, two Air Force photographers who were aboard took pictures of the damaged tail area while the plane was still aloft. But when South Vietnamese soldiers looted the crash site, they destroyed the film as well as the flight-data recorder. The looters also stripped an injured flight engineer, pinned in the wreckage, of his pistol, watch, wallet, shoes and socks...
...times the city's main thoroughfares looked like the site of a weird Grand Prix, a kind of motorcade to nowhere. Climbing aboard bicycles, pedicabs, Hondas, mini-Jeeps, taxis, small trucks-anything that would move -Saigonese sped up and down broad boulevards lined by huge tamarind trees. The hot dry air turned blue with exhaust smoke as the procession wheeled endlessly past the sidewalk cafés where red-bereted French paratroopers and homesick G.I.s once sat, watching the lissome Vietnamese girls stroll...
...Soyuz simulators at Star City, the cosmonaut training site outside Moscow, Astronauts Tom Stafford, Deke Slayton and Vance Brand joined Cosmonauts Aleksei Leonov and Valery Kubasov in practicing the maneuvering and docking of the two spacecraft. They crawled from one ship to another by passing through the "docking module" that links the spacecraft and acts as a decompression chamber (necessary because Soyuz and Apollo maintain different atmospheric pressures). The spacemen also rehearsed procedures they would follow in the event of such emergencies as a fire or loss of cabin pressure. At week's end the crews were preparing...
...said that an environmental impact statement for the plant site near the Medical School is "nearing completion...
Moulton said last year that the power plant will be completely underground and another structure, an office building or a garage, will occupy only half of the above ground site...