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...would also bring to nearly 400 the number of people who have died in Aeroflot katastrofy in the past five months. Just nine days earlier, a turboprop Ilyushin-18 carrying 106 known passengers and crew crashed into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff from the resort city of Sochi. No bodies were recovered. Last June a turboprop Antonov-10 crashed near Kharkov in the Ukraine, killing 108, many of them children on their way to summer holiday camp. In addition to the three Aeroflot tragedies, 156 people died in the crash of a Soviet-manufactured Ilyushin-62, operated by Interflug...
...institutions. Lin "didn't believe that he could really succeed to the leadership," but "afraid that his designs had been exposed," he then had his son Lin Li-kno, deputy head of the air force's operations department, send a British-made Trident aircraft to Peitaiho, a resort town some 150 miles from Peking...
Defense lawyers argued that the accused were not anarchists bent on gaining Brittany's total independence from France but responsible autonomists who had been forced to resort to violence to dramatize their cause. Their principal aims: the right of Bretons to speak their own tongue and a Breton legislative assembly with some control over the use of taxes raised in Brittany. Among the supporting witnesses called by the defenders was a World War II French underground hero, General Jacques Paris de Bollardière, who declared: "The actions these Bretons are accused of I myself committed during the Resistance...
...some students of the last decade sought to find exhilaration and inject zeal into under graduate life. One was the demand for "relevance," another was the glorification of the "happening" ("anything was good as long as it expressed the real, now self"), and the third was "trashing," an ugly resort to violence. Brewster concluded that despite a residue of change, some of it beneficial, these "patent medicines" bred disillusionment and fostered a cult of unreason. Such attitudes left no room for a university's proper, enduring concern with truth and beauty as embodied in the pursuit of knowledge...
Sadat said there were four specific items of offensive weaponry that he had sought from the Soviet Union unsuccessfully. One was fighter-bombers "to enable us to strike in depth when Israel strikes at us in depth, and so we may not have to resort to kamikaze operations." Sadat had wanted the MIG-23, the hottest new airplane in the Soviet air force. "We have tested the MIG-23 here in Egypt," he told al Hawadess. "It flew more than once deep into Israel and took photographs. It has been proved that neither the Phantom nor the American-made missiles...