Word: mission
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while, U.S.-U.S.S.R. talks on the controversy continued. On Monday, Vance and Gromyko had met at the Soviet Mission to the U.N. Aides to the Secretary described the 70-min. session as dispiriting; Gromyko did not budge from the Kremlin's public position. Nor did he at a second meeting, which took place Thursday at Vance's New York hotel suite and lasted more than three hours...
...unlike any of his modern predecessors. Already this year John Paul has toured Mexico and his native Poland, hugging and blessing peasants, kissing babies and stirring vast outpourings of human emotion with folksy homilies. In his unique fashion, he is rapidly becoming parish priest to the world, and this mission could only be furthered by his U.S. visit. Said the Rev. James Finlay, president of Fordham University in New York City: "He is reaching beyond geographical, political and ecclesiastical boundaries to give the man in the street the feeling that he is there...
While the West Bank mayors were lobbying for the Palestinian cause in Washington, the P.L.O. received a boost from U.S. Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson, off and running on a self-styled Middle East peace mission. Sparks flew from the moment Jackson arrived in Jerusalem, where Premier Menachem Begin snubbed the black activist because of his sympathy for the P.L.O. Said Jackson: "Mr. Begin's refusal to meet me represents a rejection of blacks in America, their support and their money...
...amiable arrival ceremony, Deputy Foreign Minister Wang Youping, who headed the Chinese mission, smiled broadly as he shook hands with the chief Soviet negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Leonid llyichev. Wang expressed hope for "positive results" and, reviving an old bromide from the fraternal era before the Sino-Soviet schism began in 1959, declared that "the Chinese and Soviet people have built and developed a profound friendship over long years of common revolutionary struggle...
Community groups are unhappy. They don't want any nitrogen dioxide--even amounts federal authorities have determined to be safe--floating into their backyards. The groups argue that after a DEQE hearing officer issued a decision, other officials shouldn't have chimed in. Michael Lambert, co-counsel for the Mission Hill residents, reflects the bottom line feelings; "Once Harvard gets the diesels in," he says, "they'll never take them down or shut them off." The community has visions of teeming hordes of Harvard-trained-and-hired lawyers streaming into courthouses, keeping the diesels running no matter how much nitrogen...