Word: meissner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frank Meissner...
...living quarters for the two families. Others donated furniture, kitchen utensils, television sets and children's toys and bicycles. All did their best to make the Vietnamese feel at home. "We are lucky to be here," Tran's wife told her new neighbors. "No," replied Mrs. Sandy Meissner, wife of Sutherland's mayor, "we are lucky to have...
...patriots like the CIA's Colby defending democracy and freedom throughout the world. As for covert operations, reality dictates that we must sometimes interfere with the internal affairs of other sovereign nations for their own good. After all, "they" certainly do it. An eye for an eye. Frank Meissner Cape Elizabeth...
Even so, Swiss hostility has forced Vesco and his executives to maintain only remote control over I.O.S. operations. I.O.S.'s president, Milton Meissner, was arrested with Vesco last November, and since then has been careful to stay in a hotel across the French border. I.O.S.'s day-to-day operations are run by Norman Leblanc, a Canadian accountant, but even he cannot work full time in the Geneva corporate offices because the Swiss have not granted him a labor permit. Leblanc is forced to operate from Ferney-Voltaire, a French village that became a minimetropolis almost overnight...
...Children have won over two important figures in the broader Jesus movement: David Hoyt, of Atlanta's street ministries, and Linda Meissner, of Seattle's Jesus People Army. Both apparently decided that their own methods were not producing enough lasting converts; Hoyt pointedly blamed his "watered-down Gospel." When he entered the Children of God, he took many of the Atlanta Jesus People with him. Linda Meissner, however, took far fewer of her Jesus People Army along-and indeed the feud between the mainstream Army (including Linda's husband John Salvesen) and her splinter group has scandalized...