Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nagging fears of Arab nationalists that the U.S. might be stoking up a colonialism of its own (see below), the President four times reiterated that U.S. aid is available only to those who voluntarily and freely request it, and announced that he will "promptly" send a special mission to the Middle East to explain the new doctrine to the Mideast leaders...
Booby Traps in Egypt. And although Nasser's Cairo editorialists attacked the plan as anti-Arab (they had not yet caught up with the fact that the plan is free and voluntary), Nasser himself awaited the arrival of the promised U.S. mission. "It is colonialism and Zionism that have been the cause of the strife, and not Communism," said one Egyptian, indicating the booby traps of outlook that lay ahead for the new U.S. policy. "Communism is outlawed in Egypt." From India, Jawaharlal Nehru chimed in with the comment that the U.S. attempt to send military...
Dream Landscape. "His mission was religious and military," says Author Descola, and makes clear that at the time no Spaniard saw a contradiction in this. Cortés formed his expeditionary fleet in Santiago de Cuba, and his flag bore the device: "Brothers and comrades, let us follow the Cross, and if we have true faith in this symbol, we will conquer." The facts will always remain astonishing-how Cortés scuttled his ten ships (not "burned behind him," but dismantled and sunk, despite legend and the Encyclopaedia Britannica) and with his Aztec mistress, 400 Spaniards, 15 horses...
...Administration banked on that understanding as it undertook a far-reaching mission: to persuade Congress to approve as swiftly as possible sweeping changes in immigration laws. By broadening existing legislation, easing the strait-laced requirements of the McCarran-Walter Act, the U.S. would be able to admit not merely 21,500 Hungarian refugees who fled their country's October uprising, but worthy thousands of anti-Soviets who escaped Iron Curtain countries earlier, and have been waiting in pitiful refugee camps abroad for a chance to enter...
Rees spent more than two weeks in the Antarctic with Polar Explorer Paul Siple and other members of the U.S. expedition to report this week's cover story. As part of his assignment,he trudged the volcanic hills, rode Weasels over crusty snowfields and went on supply-dropping missions over the Pole. When the mission was washed out by poor visibility and the plane had to burn off 15,000 pounds of fuel before risking an icy landing, Rees flew in one afternoon over more territory than was covered by all previous Antarctic expeditions...