Word: missioners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought reading and Bible translations to 90 previously illiterate tribes, and is currently at work with 650 more. Counting pilots and support personnel, literacy teachers and workers in community development, agriculture and medicine, the agency has a staff of 3,700, making it by far the largest U.S. mission. Until recently, at least, it was still growing...
...contributes to "keeping the Indians in their natural state." S.I.L. officers and many Brazilian linguists deny the charge, in part because S.I.L. teams, once they make a tribe literate in its own language, customarily proceed to teach the tribesmen Portuguese as well. In conjunction with several Brazilian universities, the mission is still negotiating to keep many of its linguistic teams in the field, perhaps with Brazilian linguists working alongside, at least until they have finished the four New Testaments now nearing completion and eight more that are expected to be ready within two years...
John T. Bethell '53, editor of Harvard Magazine, announces that he was the one who "lost the religion that Larry Flynt found." Bethell says his first mission will be to "sex up" his floundering publication, but denies that his first project will be a "scratch 'n sniff" centerfold of Nathan Glazer...
What Sadat called the "electric shock diplomacy" of Jerusalem was galvanic?and he moved swiftly to make sure that the good will created by his mission was not dissipated. Within three weeks, Israeli diplomats and journalists were flying into Cairo to attend?along with a U.S. delegate and a United Nations representative?a pre-Geneva conference that Sadat had convoked. Even though the two countries were still technically at war, the Israelis found themselves welcomed with astounding warmth and joy by Egyptians. Near Alexandria, the Defense Ministers of Egypt and Israel met to discuss military maps. Now Menachem Begin...
...turned aside. The following year he abruptly evicted Soviet military advisers and experts from Egypt in a gesture toward the West that Washington failed to follow up. Then in October 1973 he caught Israel off guard with his Yom Kippur attack across the Suez. All these events, like his mission to Jerusalem, appear to have been dictated by a powerful and almost desperate internal logic...