Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them are confused, embarrassed or annoyed by their strange hero status. Says John McCain: "It doesn't take a helluva lot of talent to get shot down." Virginia Guttersen ex plains: "To a military man, the P.O.W. is a loser, the guy who didn't complete his mission. The Government made them heroes. It was all they...
...Jewish Dissident Vladimir Slepak, 50, to five years' internal exile for "malicious hooliganism." Slepak's offense: he and his wife had unfurled a banner saying LET US GO TO OUR SON IN ISRAEL on the balcony of their apartment as part of their campaign to win per mission to emigrate. Another Jewish dissident, Ida Nudel, 47, was sentenced to a four-year exile for a similar demonstration the same...
...government of Premier Menachem Begin took its time in arriving at its answers. When it finally did so last week, it was almost a year to the day after the ailing Polish-born guerrilla fighter and political mystic came to power and seven months following Sadat's "sacred mission" to Jerusalem. But the passage of time had not changed attitudes. The Israeli government's response was only a crisp observation that five years after a peace agreement Israel would be willing to negotiate "the nature of future relations" between itself and the West Bank. With that virtual nonanswer...
...being conducted on the diplomatic front. The Soviet decision to make a sensational public issue of the Peterson case was apparently prompted by U.S. disclosures four weeks ago that the FBI had captured three Soviet spies in Woodbridge, N.J. One of the Russians, a staff member of the Soviet mission to the U.N., had diplomatic immunity and was swiftly sent home. The other two, United Nations Employees Rudolf Chernyayev and Valdik Enger, were indicted by a grand jury on charges of passing U.S. Navy secrets and jailed with the unusually high bail of $2 million each. FBI leaks...
...British middle-class couples, all related, who are brought together by happenstance for 48 hours of squabbling, eating, drinking and fondling. The action is ignited by the only live wire in the group, an assistant librarian named Norman. Though in most ways ordinary, Norman believes it is his mission in life to make women happy by showering them with love. Employing his considerable resources of charm and empathy, he tries to seduce both his dreary sisters-in-law ? even as he maintains his relationship with his wife...