Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such an effort would also be in the spirit of the joint Soyuz-Apollo mission of 1975, whose main theme was mutual assistance in space. Besides, which would be more embarrassing: To ask the Russians for help, or to face possible casualties, billion-dollar indemnification suits and unforeseen political consequences if 85 tons of flaming fragments land in some sensitive region of the earth...
...Melvin Fisher. In 1971 Fisher, 56, located a Spanish galleon that sank off the coast of Florida in 1622 carrying 47 tons of gold and silver. Since then, he and his company have been diving for the treasure, which could be worth as much as $600 million. The mission's cost so far: $5 million and four lives, including that of Fisher...
...There is an obvious element of risk involved: no one is hiding that," acknowledged Carter's National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in a discussion with TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, who covered the latest Vance mission. But the Administration was determined, Brzezinski added, to take an optimistic view. "Pessimism is a luxury that policymakers can't afford," he reflected, "because pessimism, on the part of people who try to shape events, can become a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...World leaders in Algiers. Page subsequently sold Amin a Lockheed cargo plane and furnished crews for it. When Amin wanted to buy medical supplies and seed wheat, Page executives rounded them up from U.S. suppliers. Amin gave Wilmorite the contract to build Uganda's new $5 million U.N. mission in Manhattan. Only after Congress began investigating U.S. suppliers selling equipment to Uganda about a year ago did Page break its aircraft service contract with Amin...
...corporate door. More than 50 companies have been interested in the program since its inception. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with grants from such corporations as A T & T, Exxon and General Motors, the program has established strong links between business and academe. Part of the mission has been to smash stereotypes. Says one Ph.D.: "It works both ways. Businessmen see us as people with no feet on the ground; we see them as ogres...