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Khrushchev’s son recalls Sputnik, Gagarin ascent in US-Soviet space race
In October 1957, a beach-ball sized metal globe hurtled through space a couple hundred miles above the United States. That orb was the first artificial Earth satellite — Sputnik. Sergei Khrushchev, former missile engineer and son of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, remembers the US-Soviet race into space.
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With Comey’s dismissal, are we careening towards a constitutional crisis?
Jeffrey Rosen, a professor of law at George Washington University and president of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, says President Donald Trump was acting within his authority when he dismissed FBI director James Comey.
‘My father lost his life through a bombing, by agents of a man who Henry Kissinger supported’
Forty years ago, Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean diplomat, and, Ronni Moffitt, his assistant, were killed when a bomb taped beneath their vehicle detonated. Francisco Letelier, the diplomat’s son, revisits the murder on Washington’s Embassy Row.
It’s ‘Colombia,’ not ‘Columbia’ — get it right
Colombians are sick of having people spell their country “Columbia.” A few of them have started a campaign to educate the rest of the world. But, they have their work cut out for them.Colombians are sick of having people spell their country “Columbia.” A few of them have started a campaign to educate the rest of the world. But, they have their work cut out for them.
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