Thursday, September 22, 2016

Debt Of Honor (1994)




From 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) To 8/17/1994 is 7669 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/1/1986 ( Ronald Reagan - Radio Address to the Nation on Soviet-United States Relations ) is 7669 days



From 8/17/1994 To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut ) is 316 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/14/1966 ( the United States Gemini 11 extra-vehicular astronaut activity ) is 316 days



From 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system and diverts it away from the planet Earth ) To 8/17/1994 is 6618 days

6618 = 3309 + 3309

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/24/1974 ( Gerald Ford - Joint United States-Soviet Statement on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms ) is 3309 days



From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 8/17/1994 is 966 days

966 = 483 + 483

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/28/1967 ( Lyndon Johnson - Statement by the President Upon Recommending Development of a Nuclear-Powered Rocket Engine and New Nuclear Research Facilities ) is 483 days



From 5/4/1982 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy officer and United States Navy SEAL survived the attack by Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush-Communist on his location aboard the United Kingdom Royal Navy warship HMS Sheffield D80 ) To 8/17/1994 is 4488 days

4488 = 2244 + 2244

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) is 2244 days



From 5/4/1982 ( Ronald Reagan - Remarks at the Republican Congressional "Salute to President Ronald Reagan Dinner" ) To 8/17/1994 is 4488 days

4488 = 2244 + 2244

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) is 2244 days





http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/22/business/media-business-autumn-nears-publishers-brace-for-glut-big-name-titles.html

THE MEDIA BUSINESS; As Autumn Nears, Publishers Brace for a Glut of Big-Name Titles

By SARAH LYALL

Published: Monday, August 22, 1994

August is a slow and languorous month for publishing. Employees go on vacation, new books are released in a trickle and most companies in New York close at lunchtime every Friday so the editors can head for the Hamptons.

But this is the calm before the storm, because publishers are actually resting up for the big fall season. Autumn for publishing is like summer is for Hollywood: it is the time when many of the year's splashiest titles are released, bookstores are full of customers and everyone in the industry hopes to find a hit that will carry through until Christmas.

The months between September and December are always crowded with new books by big authors, and this year, booksellers and publishers say, the season looks to be particularly full. A Flood of Titles

The rush has already started with Tom Clancy, whose latest book, "Debt of Honor," has been shipped by its publisher, G. P. Putnam's Sons. The enormous first printing of two million copies began reaching stores Wednesday.



http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1994_1219067

Snippets

Staff, wire reports

MON 08/08/1994

HOUSTON CHRONICLE


Another Clancy tale

If the ground rumbles Aug. 17, it may be because an estimated 2 million copies of Tom Clancy's new yarn, "Debt of Honor" (Putnam), are scheduled to be laid down in stores.












https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Gemini_11_Agena.jpg





http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/gemini-11.htm


Human Spaceflights

International Flight No. 21

Gemini 11

USA


The docking with the unmanned Agena target vehicle GATV-11 was completed after five flight maneuvers and only 94 minutes after the launch (16:16:33 UTC). There were no fuel problems and the crew began docking practice (two dockings and re-dockings of both astronauts).

In the first EVA on September 13, 1966 (0h 38m) Richard Gordon attached the tether from the GATV to the spacecraft docking bar, but became fatigued too, even the GATV was modificated with handrails. The face plate of his helmet fogged and this EVA was shortened.

The whole complex of two spacecrafts was then brought up to a high apogee record of 1.360 km, using the boosters of the Agena target vehicle.

The second EVA on September 14, 1966 (2h 08m) was in fact a SEVA. The astronaut remained with his legs in the spacecraft. Richard Gordon photographed the Earth, clouds and stars.

After two orbits the Agena was fired again for 22.5 seconds to lower the Gemini-Agena back down to a 287 x 304 km orbit. The spacecrafts were then redocked and the joined pair was brought into a rotation to build a small gravity in the spacecrafts. The rotation rate checked out at 55 degrees per minute, and the crew could test for a minute amount of artificial gravity, but they did not sense any physiological effect of gravity.










From 1/10/1805 to 4/5/1900 ( Joseph Bertrand deceased ) is 34783 days

From 4/5/1900 ( Joseph Bertrand deceased ) to 6/29/1995 is 34783 days



From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 6/29/1995 is 1566 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/15/1970 ( premiere US TV series episode "Bonanza"::"The Law and Billy Burgess" ) is 1566 days



From 4/13/1955 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Letter to the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy on the Proposed Agreement for Cooperation with NATO on Atomic Information ) To 12/7/1984 ( premiere US film "2010" ) is 10831 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/29/1995 is 10831 days



[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/09/university-of-south-carolina.html ]


http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1995-06-29/news/9507060249_1_international-space-astronauts-and-cosmonauts-space-station

SunSentinel


Space Makes Ideal Venue For Peace

June 29, 1995

Remember the U.S.-Soviet "space race''?










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 1:30 AM Friday, April 04, 2008


From 3/14/1965 ( date hijacked from me: )


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 3:08 PM Thursday, April 24, 2008


From 3/14/1965 ( )


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 12:18 AM Saturday, April 26, 2008


From 3/14/1965 ( I am active duty Central Intelligence Agency officer )


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 11:47 PM Sunday, August 10, 2008


From 3/14/1965 ( I am active duty Central Intelligence Agency officer and a U.S. Naval Reserve commissioned officer until 1978 when my commission converted to U.S. Navy regular commission


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 2:34 AM Saturday, December 11, 2010


From 3/14/1965 ( I am active duty United States of America Central Intelligence Agency officer and executive )


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http://www.e-reading.co.uk/bookreader.php/1016710/Clancy_-_Debt_Of_Honor.html


Debt Of Honor (1994)

Tom Clancy


Chapter 4.

Activity


The meat of the play had been determined months earlier, long before the negotiations had stumbled upon the issue, and in retrospect sober minds would certainly have called it an accident, just one more of the odd coincidences that shape the fate of nations and their leaders. As with most such events, it had begun with a simple error that had occurred despite the most careful of precautions. A bad electrical wire, of all things, had reduced the available current into a dip tank, thus reducing the charge in the hot liquid into which the steel sheets were dipped. That in turn had reduced the galvanizing process, and the steel sheets were in fact given merely a thin patina, while they appeared to be fully coated. The non-galvanized sheets were piled up on pallets, wrapped with steel bands for stability, and covered with plastic. The error would be further compounded in the finishing and assembly process.

The plant where it had happened was not part of the assembler. As with American firms, the big auto-assembly companies--which designed the cars and put their trademarks on them--bought most of the components from smaller parts-supply companies. In Japan the relationship between the bigger fish and the smaller ones was both stable and cutthroat: stable insofar as the business between the two sets of companies was generally one of long standing; cutthroat insofar as the demands of the assemblers were dictatorial, for there was always the threat that they would move their business to someone else, though this possibility was rarely raised openly. Only oblique references, usually a kindly comment on the state of affairs at another, smaller firm, a reference to the bright children of the owner of such a firm, or how the representative of the assembler had seen him at a ball game or bathhouse the previous week. The nature of the reference was less important than the content of the message, and that content always came through loud and clear. As a result, the little parts-companies were not the showcases of Japanese heavy industry that other nationalities had come to see and respect on worldwide television. The workers didn't wear company coveralls, didn't eat alongside management in plush cafeterias, didn't work in spotless, superbly organized assembly plants. The pay for these workers was also something other than the highly adequate wage structure of the assembly workers, and though the lifelong employment covenant was becoming fiction even for the elite workers, it had never existed at all for the others.

At one of the nondescript metal-working shops, the bundles of not-quite-galvanized steel were unwrapped, and the individual sheets fed by hand to cutting machines. There the square sheets were mechanically sliced, and the edges trimmed--the surplus material was gathered and returned to the steel mill for recycling--so that each piece matched the size determined by the design, invariably to tolerances less than a millimeter, even for this fairly crude component which the owner's eyes would probably never behold. The larger cut pieces moved on to another machine for heating and bending, then were welded into an oval cylinder. Immediately thereafter the oval-cut end pieces were matched up and welded into place as well, by a machine process that required only one workman to supervise. Pre-cut holes in one side were matched up with the pipe that would terminate at the filler cap--there was another in the bottom for the line leading to the engine. Before leaving the jobber, the tanks were spray-coated with a wax-and-epoxy-based formula that would protect the steel against rust. The formula was supposed to bond with the steel, creating a firm union of disparate materials that would forever protect the gas tank against corrosion and resultant fuel leakage. An elegant and fairly typical piece of superb Japanese engineering, only in this case it didn't work because of the bad electrical cable at the steel plant. The coating never really attached itself to the steel, though it had sufficient internal stiffness to hold its shape long enough for visual inspection to be performed, and immediately afterwards the gas tanks proceeded by roller-conveyor to the boxing shop at the end of the small-parts plant. There the tanks were tucked into cardboard boxes fabricated by yet another jobber and sent by truck to a warehouse where half of the tanks were placed aboard other trucks for delivery to the assembly plant, and the other half went into identically sized cargo containers which were loaded aboard a ship for transport to the United States. There the tanks would be attached to a nearly identical automobile at a plant owned by the same international conglomerate, though this plant was located in the hills of Kentucky, not the Kwanto Plain outside of Tokyo.

All this had taken place months before the item had come onto the agenda of the Domestic Content Negotiations. Thousands of automobiles had been assembled and shipped with defective fuel tanks, and all had slipped through the usually excellent quality-assurance procedures at the assembly plants separated by six thousand miles of land and sea. In the case of those assembled in Japan, the cars had been loaded aboard some of the ugliest ships ever made, slab-sided auto-carriers which had the riding characteristics of barges as they plodded through the autumnal storms of the North Pacific Ocean. The sea-salt in the air reached through the ships' ventilation systems to the autos. That wasn't too bad until one of the ships drove through a front, and cold air changed rapidly to warm, and the instant change in relative humidity interacted with that of the air within various fuel tanks, causing salt-heavy moisture to form on the exterior of the steel, inside the defective coating. There the salt immediately started working on the unprotected mild steel of the tank, rusting and weakening the thin metal that contained 92-octane gasoline.

Whatever his other faults, Corp met his death with dignity, Ryan saw. He had just finished watching a tape segment that CNN had judged unsuitable for its regular news broadcast. After a speech whose translation Ryan had on two sheets of paper in his lap, the noose was placed over his head and the trap was sprung. The CNN camera crew focused in on the body as it jerked to a stop, closing an entry on his country's ledger. Mohammed Abdul Corp. Bully, killer, drug-runner. Dead.

"I just hope we haven't created a martyr," Brett Hanson said, breaking the silence in Ryan's office.

"Mr. Secretary," Ryan said, turning his head to see his guest reading through a translation of Corp's last words. "Martyrs all share a single characteristic."

"What's that, Ryan?"



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:38 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 22 September 2016