Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toughly worded statement read on prime-time television in South Africa, Prime Minister P.W. Botha announced the expulsion of several members of the American mission in Pretoria for "aerial espionage." A grim-faced Botha told South Africans that a twin-engine Beechcraft turboprop used by U.S. Am bassador William B. Edmondson had been "converted for use as a spy plane by the installation of an aerial-survey camera under the seat of the copilot." The Prime Minister charged that "the embassy air craft was engaged in a systematic pro gram of photography of vast areas of South Africa, including some...
Katherine P. Evans '79, a senior class marshall, said yesterday the Biko fund would "allow students to assist the University in its academic mission but show their disapproval of its South Africa policies...
John has been chosen for the role of decoy because of his physical resemblance to the victims and his rigorous preparation for the job. The life of an astronaut, he claims, is one not of glamor, but of "boring and montonous routine," thus qualifying him for a mission in which his task is to reproduce Adams's exact schedule of daily activities, going so far as to wear the dead man's clothing, drive his car and occupy the same hotel room. John is under 24-hour surveillance by a team of six scientists who observe him through binolculars...
...from wounded pride after he was relegated to the position of back-up astronaut. In modern technology, where remote-control computers are "the highest order, the symbol of our civilization," John says facetiously, there is no room for human failings: acute hay fever forced his demotion when a space mission unexpectedly discovered vegetation on Mars. Rather than remain a member of the backup crew, he quit, joining the undercover investigation in the hope that it would satisfy his attraction to risk and "the unknown, the unpredictable, the undefinable." He finds what he is looking...
...England's most famous contemporary explorer, the peaceful intervention on Sumatra was almost a workaday mission. As head of an unusual London-based organization called Survival International, Hanbury-Tenison has been aiding endangered tribal peoples for a decade. By his reckoning, what happened to Sumatra's Mentaweians could have befallen almost any of some 3 million people in a dozen countries round the world who pursue simple lives as hunters and gatherers or as nomadic herdsmen...