Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forthcoming U.S. treaty debate I know that President Carter now has a difficult mission, but I am also confident that the moral force of what is right will prevail. When your people are informed of the truth, they will come to know the injustice that was done here some 70 years ago, simply to provide passage for a U.S. merchant fleet. The American people are a moral people, and when they learn the size of the injustice, I believe they will support the new treaty...
Five high-level emissaries were out spreading the gospel of good will. United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young toured seven island countries in the Caribbean, as well as Mexico, Costa Rica and Venezuela, on a twelve-day mission designed to signal increased U.S. concern for the long-neglected area. At the same time, Assistant Secretary of State Terence Todman and Patricia Derian, State's Coordinator for Human Rights, set out on separate South American missions, while State Department Counselor Matthew Nimetz went to Mexico City. Meanwhile, Senator Frank Church, ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accepted a longstanding...
Young's mission carried a heavy load of political evangelism for the new Administration-and he in turn was greeted like an old friend with warm abrazos. Reported TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast, who accompanied Young on part of his tour: "Carter could not have picked a more effective emissary for the diplomatic tone-setting job than Young. He functioned as considerably more than a U.N. ambassador, traveling virtually as an alternate Secretary of State with a retinue of specialists on the region from appropriate agencies, as well as the U.N. mission. No small part of his effectiveness...
Young said his mission was to "put together a comprehensive approach" to Caribbean policy and not to come on like a dollar-wielding "Big Daddy". But increased aid will follow-especially for Jamaica and Guyana. Relations with both countries have been strained in recent years, partly because of the leftist convictions of Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica and Prime Minister Forbes Burnham of Guyana, and partly because of the two leaders' independent stance in pursuing good relations with Cuba. As Young assured a Guyanese audience, "past difficulties" would not stand in the way of "common agreement...
DIED. Francis Gary Powers, 47, airman-turned-spy who parachuted into history in 1960 when the U-2 he piloted on a CIA mission was shot down inside the Soviet Union; in a helicopter crash while on a reporting assignment for KNBC-TV, Los Angeles; in Encino, Calif. His capture, along with that of his photographic and electronic surveillance equipment, caused Nikita Khrushchev to cancel a summit conference with President Eisenhower. Tried publicly in Moscow, Powers was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for espionage, then released in 1962 in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel...