Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuban Prime Minister canceled an Ottawa luncheon with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, worked in quick visits to Boston and Montreal, got set to fly this week to Buenos Aires. His mission: to head the Cuban delegation at a meeting of the Committee of 21, appointed by the Organization of American States to study hemisphere development...
PANAMA, April 28--Two bearded Cuban officers landed at a remote Panama beach today on a peace mission and contacted a band of invaders from Cuba. The officers immediately began negotiating for the surrender of the invasion force...
...first-quarter funds before second-quarter funds can be released. But Laotians, not accustomed to American accountants' techniques, were slow to comply with all the forms, despite lengthy pleas from Vientiane. Rather than see the whole program collapse before the rainy season stops all work in June, ICA Mission Chief Daly Lavergne fortnight ago decided on his own to release more funds without a Washington go-ahead. Hearing of this, Premier Phoui grinned with relief...
...Washington's International Cooperation Administration bought and shipped $1,500,000 worth of road-building and repairing equipment and signed up an American engineering firm to teach Laotians how to operate the machinery. But the engineers arrived to find that, without Washington's knowledge, the local ICA mission had arranged for a Bangkok company, Universal Construction Co., to handle the job. One explanation emerged in testimony last week before a House subcommittee; Edward T. McNamara, husky ICA public-works officer in Laos from 1955 to 1957, admitted receiving stock and cash amounting to more than $12,000 from...
Apart from its mission of feeding facts to farmers, the Journal is a tireless, effective crusader on issues great and small. In 1953, within six months after the magazine had demanded, "Let's Make 'Em Cook Raw Garbage" (to kill the vesicular exanthema virus that can infect hogs), 28 states enacted appropriate laws. Currently, Editor Streeter is busily engaged in a crusade in which the stakes are no less than the future of the American farmer, afflicted as he is by a self-defeating Government program that this fiscal year is costing the U.S. taxpayer a scandalous...