Word: supportables
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam. Formal mutual-defense commitments such as the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) will be honored, but the U.S. will expect Asians to bear more of the military load. Counterinsurgency operations will be handled on a country-to-country basis. The basic premise is that the U.S. will support its allies in war, but will not fight for them...
...President now stresses Asian action on Asian problems. Nixon will ask Asian leaders the extent to which they would be willing to help supervise elections in Viet Nam and police a ceasefire. He is also lending discreet support to the embryonic five-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a means of shaping a regional community. Underlying all considerations is the overweening presence of Communist China...
There is far more to Mission Control, however, than the control room. For each console there is a staff support room down the hall manned by a dozen or more experts. Complete telemetry from the spacecraft is received by staff-room consoles, which funnel the most important bits to the control room and store the rest. The space program's major contractors-North American Rockwell for the command and service modules, Grumman for the lunar module-also keep staff members in nearby offices. In case of trouble with spacecraft equipment, the contractors can call major subcontractors on their...
...Madrid, Spain, and Canberra, Australia, 17 ground stations, four U.S. Navy ships scattered over the seas and eight communications planes-all receiving and transmitting vital bits of data throughout the mission. No one is more aware than the astronauts themselves of how impossible a flight would be without such support...
Like Apple Pie. "We have some of the lowest sewer tax rates in the country," says Stefanski. "I figured we'd double the rates to amortize our bonds." To persuade the people to pay, Stefanski enlisted newspaper support, lined up citizen groups and got 33 suburban governments to endorse the plan. "It became like apple pie and motherhood," he recalls. "No one could be against clean water." Last fall Clevelanders approved the bond issue by a vote of 2 to 1, giving it more "yes" votes than any other proposal on the ballot. In five years, Cleveland should have...