Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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General Richard Carey, commander of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at Cherry Point: "This aircraft has an accident rate which is no higher than with certain other aircraft at comparable points in time." Nonetheless, the Pentagon concedes that the Harrier currently suffers the highest accident rate of any U.S. military aircraft - an average of 5.32 crashes for every 10,000 hours of flight time...
...brings in all the questions he wants to discuss.'" So every Wednesday the First Lady has a business lunch, squeezed in among Cabinet officers and visiting dignitaries on the official schedule. Rosalynn goes well prepared to those lunches a deux on the secluded patio out side his West Wing study. "I've got a whole file of things I take to talk about with him." For example, she told him much about her diplomatic foray through Latin America as the President's representative, which a lot of people thought was not a proper role for a First...
...Leonard Becker discovered that the tube labeled OXYGEN was actually pumping nitrous oxide to his patient. After a preliminary investigation, hospital authorities last week admitted that mislabeled pipe connections for the anesthetic gas "may have" caused as many as five deaths in the hospital since Suburban opened its wing almost eight months ago. In all, some 300 patients were apparently dosed with nitrous oxide by mistake...
...leadership to help create it-a leadership that would set "politically and morally compelling directions to which the public might then positively respond." Now the Polish emigre academic, a man of angular features whose crew cut seems a carryover from the '50s, is comfortably entrenched in the West Wing of Jimmy Carter's White House, in the same large, gold-hued corner office once occupied by another foreign-born but very different ex-professor, Henry Kissinger. Brzezinski, 49, who is variously considered brilliant, arrogant and ambitious, is thus in a unique position to translate many of his long...
Prime Minister Ian Smith proceeded last week with his grand plan for solving the Rhodesian crisis-on his own terms. First, he aims to win the country's Aug. 31 elections in order to head off a threat to his government from a new, right-wing splinter group (TIME, Aug. 1). Then, with his mandate reinforced, he hopes to create a moderate, multiracial government in Rhodesia that would include both whites and some conservative black nationalists-but not leaders of the radical Patriotic Front with its guerrilla army...