Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which was written by Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, and to Science Editor Fred Golden's accompanying report on space exploration. A licensed pilot and irrepressible space buff, Hannifin has been covering NASA since it was NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, until 1958). Recalls Hannifin: "We used to talk about the 'new' turbojet engines, and, gee whiz! a supersonic airplane even seemed possible." Over the years, he met Rocket Wizard Wernher von Braun, covered blast-offs from Cape Kennedy...
...experts had accompanied him from Washington, he pointedly took none of them and no members of the U.S. Embassy with him for his 1-hr, and 45-min. meeting with Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Administration officials were similarly excluded from Byrd's more-than-two-hour talk with Gromyko. This session began on an amiable note, with the Foreign Minister observing that his pile of briefing notes was thinner than Byrd's thick folder. "That's just my notebook," replied the majority leader. "I'm going to write down what you tell...
...methods of rescuing Skylab were considered by NASA and then discarded as impractical. There was talk of a joint Soviet-American mission, using the Soviet Soyuz system, but it had to be abandoned because the Russian craft's docking hardware was incompatible with Skylab's. Soyuz also lacked sufficient propellant to maneuver with the ailing U.S. vehicle and then give it a powerful boost into higher orbit. Declared NASA'S Frosch: "The obstacles involved were insurmountable, in the time remaining." Russian scientists, in effect, agree, although they note that if plans for a cooperative effort had been started two years...
...asked to add as many as four of the people to the provisional government; meanwhile Vaky, hoping to build support for the proposal among other Latin American nations, visited Colombia and the Dominican Republic to persuade them to recommend the plan to the junta. "We're willing to talk about expanding the junta," said Sergio Ramirez Mercado, one of its five members, "but this should be done directly between Nicaraguans...
...Strauss's first official duties in Israel was to spell out Washington's concerns in a talk with members of the Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee. He pointed out that the minority of Americans sympathetic to the Arab view point would greatly increase if the worsening fuel situation in the U.S. should ultimately be blamed on Jerusalem's obstinacy over the Palestinian problem. The message was not lost on Knesset members. Israeli politicians are already disturbed by signs that many American Jews have serious reservations about any settlements on the West Bank that are not vital...