Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed for Saigon, it was the first real test of Vietnamization, a policy that the Administration had pursued-at a cost of 12,000 U.S. lives and three more years in a divisive and unpopular war-in order to buy time until the South Vietnamese could defend their own soil. To the Administration, however, the Communist attack was an opportunity as well as an uncertain challenge. The White House is convinced, as one official put it last week, that "if the Vietnamese fight well, this will hasten the end of the war considerably." In short, Washington felt-perhaps too optimistically...
...camera. The rover's seat belts have been redesigned to anchor passengers more comfortably during the jouncing ride in the moon's weak gravity. The electric drilling equipment that caused Apollo 15 Astronaut Dave Scott to grunt and curse as he tried to cut into the lunar soil has been modified. Other improvements include: new foods (ham steak, fruit desserts), special drugs and liquids to compensate for the effects of weightlessness, and more efficient waste and toilet collection bags...
...region will be divided into 2 1/2-acre grids for research purposes. The team members will then collect a diversity of information about the soil, wildlife, current land use and exact location of each grid and feed it into a computer. After the designers have planned changes in the region, the computer will simulate the effects of these alterations allowing the team to see regional patterns...
...underground leader of the Mau Mau, then waging a bloody war against Europeans in the British colony. It was during that visit that George VI died and Elizabeth became Queen of England. Last week she returned to Africa and met Kenyatta for the first time on Kenya soil. Now President of his country, Jomo gave the Queen his nation's highest award-the Order of the Golden Heart. Elizabeth responded by investing her host with the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and-for an old warrior turned rose fancier-a silver flower bowl...
Even worse findings may lie ahead. Dr. Bertram Carnow of the University of Illinois testified at the trial: "The amount of lead I have seen in El Paso is the highest in both the air and the soil that I have ever seen or heard of." Worried city officials plan a massive examination. "We will be taking blood samples from between 50,000 and 60,000 kids," says Rosenblum. El Paso Mayor Bert Williams, who has campaigned against American Smelting and has consequently been booed by workers fearful of the plant's shutting down, is going to Washington...