Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...route with Vance on a mission almost impossible...
...mission confronting Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was to learn as he put it, "how to crack the hard nuts that have to be cracked So last week Vance flew in and it of the familiar way stations of Middle Eastern diplomacy-Alexandria Beirut, Damascus ... En route he heard a revised and promising version of a formula for indirect negotiations between Israel and the Arabs-but in almost no time at all the region's quarreling states proved that this solution would not be acceptable. Thus by week's end, with his eleven-day trip mostly over...
...Cairo's view, Gaddafi's ultimate target was Sadat himself. The first real clue that something was afoot came two months ago, when Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy returned home from Moscow after an unsuccessful mission to improve the cool relations between Egypt and the Soviet Union. Fahmy had protested the Libyan military buildup; the Soviets had bluntly told him that it was none of Cairo's business...
...system. Control Data had eagerly sought the necessary Commerce Department export license. To allay fears that the computer might be diverted to military purposes, the company pledged that its own technicians would tend the machine, which would be programmed to cry foul at the first attempt to alter its mission...
...will be picked up at 7 p.m. and taken to a spot 25 minutes away by car. Where? We can't tell you that. We will say only that it is not on the island of Manhattan." Mission: Impossible! No, just a reporter being escorted last week to the set of Superman, possibly the most supersecret, superpublicized movie ever to be shot-at least within 25 minutes of midtown Manhattan...