Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nations, and Vladimir Zinyakin, a member of the Soviet U.N. mission. The first two were charged with espionage and put in jail, where they remained last week in default of $2 million bail apiece. They face life imprisonment if convicted. Zinyakin, who has diplomatic immunity, may simply be sent home by the Soviets at the State Department's request. As is apt to happen in the spy business, the three had been doublecrossed by Ed, actually a loyal Navy officer who went along with the Russians to entrap them. His name is being withheld, but he may have...
...work on this new mission, making the final drop at Woodbridge just before the FBI closed in. The agents had no problem identifying their quarry: Enger and Chernyayev had used cars-observed near the drop-off points-registered in their own names...
...SMALL BAND of brave whites surrounded by maddened savages on the Dark Continent: it was the sort of story that once gave a romantic veil to the sordid history of Africa's colonization. American newspapers seized on the invasion of Shaba province by Katangan rebels and the subsequent rescue mission by French and Belgian paratroopers, as if they had found a modern version of Stanley and Livingston. The Boston Herald-American screamed out "Whites Massacred in Zaire," while Newsweek, slightly less hysterically racist, went with "Massacre in Zaire." White casualties were carefully tabulated and lamented, but the death toll...
...lesson we should learn from all this is that the French-Belgian intervention, which Newsweek called "a gallant rescue mission" for the Europeans in Kolwezi, was actually a rescue mission for the shaky, uniquely corrupt and autocratic regime of Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire. Even with the hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid that the U.S. has pumped into Mobutu's army, it broke and ran in the face of a few thousand Katangan rebels, and had to be bailed out by the French and Belgians. Mobutu's latest pronouncement on the subject was his call this week...
...credo: "Our job is to provide all the power consumers need at prices they can afford." Wagner's ally on the three-man board was William Jenkins, who complained bitterly about harassment by environmentalists and quit. But Jimmy Carter felt that the TVA had lost its sense of mission. It had, he complained, "become dormant and just another power company." One result was that to fill a vacant directorship nine months ago, Carter appointed Freeman, then a principal architect of the Administration's energy policy. The President decided to make him the chairman upon Wagner's retirement...