Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good" was Ambassador Robert Strauss's verdict on his own mission to the Middle East. He openly complained about the instructions that had been given him and asked who was in charge of U.S. policy on the Middle East. It was an astonishing question for a U.S. diplomat to raise in public. TIME Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian provides at least part of the answer in this report...
...instructions, and the National Security Adviser confirmed that he had done so. Strauss bluntly laid out his understanding of his role: he had been placed in an intolerable position, and that could never happen again. He insisted that he be allowed to operate more freely. The failure of the mission left Vance and Brzezinski with no argument to make. It was jointly decided that they would recommend to the President that he submit to the U.N. no new resolution on Palestinian rights. Asked by reporters who was in charge of Middle East policy, Vance said tartly, "That remains the responsibility...
...White House senior aides say the President has developed a healthy skepticism about Brzezinski's steady stream of proposals. During the final spasms of the Iranian crisis, for instance, it was first decided that Brzezinski, not Vance, should fly over to try personally to bolster the Shah, a mission Brzezinski eagerly pushed. At the last moment, Carter was talked out of the plan, finally agreeing that it was too risky. Brzezinski was just as anxious to journey to Moscow when the SALT II negotiations stalled. "These State Department guys are too soft," he told one of his associates...
Until Carter names a successor, Young will remain at his U.N. post. He will thus complete his one-month tour as Security Council president and probably will lead a group of businessmen on a trade mission to West Africa in mid-September. As for his plans after that, he ruled out running for office in 1980, saying that he intends "to work with President Carter for his re-election...
...Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, Coppola wanted to portray America's Viet Nam adventure as a literal and metaphysical journey into madness. The literal journey is taken by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), an officer who is commanded to travel upriver from Saigon to Cambodia. His mission is to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once exemplary Green Beret who has now gone crazy and set up a kingdom of murder in the darkest jungle. "There is no way to tell [Kurtz's] story without telling my own," Willard explains early on. Coppola apparently hoped that...