Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's repressive Premier Ali Nasser Mohamed. East Germany is also believed to be running three training camps in South Yemen for radical Palestinian commandos. East Berlin has dispatched "Brigades of Friendship," consisting of military, ideological, security and medical cadres, to Angola; in Mozambique, the East German "diplomatic" mission has become the largest in the country, exceeding even that of the Soviet Union. East Germany's increasingly complex African operations are now handled by a special secretariat in East Berlin, headed by Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade Alex Schalk...
...Washington last April, Carter had convinced him that Israel wanted a detailed and permanent resolution of the Middle East conflict rather than a mere termination of the long state of belligerency. Sadat felt that he had amply responded by his spectacular visit to Israel in November, his "sacred mission." But after that breakthrough, Egyptian officials argued, Israel balked at making any real concessions. "There has even been some retrogression," said one Egyptian diplomat, "since the Israelis now are insisting on retaining and defending their settlements in the Sinai...
...Some Arabs want me to say I regret my Jerusalem mission. No, I don't regret it. Let's hope that with Carter we can discuss giving momentum again in the spirit of my mission...
...Jerusalem. I won't let them down. Unfortunately there was no response from the other side. But if time proves that I am wrong, I must pay for this. I shall not try to change my ideas, because when I started, I was convinced it was a sacred mission...
...allusions, the often crude, even downright scatological sounds captured on record--all these ingredients first sold me on Monty Python several years ago. Indeed, I credit the comedy troupe's Monty Python's Previous Record with having taught me the true, wrenched-gut meaning of a guffaw. The divine mission to convert friends to the joys of these whacked-out Britons soon followed this revelation; I had heard the true sound of comedy, and it had a funny accent...