Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time is the most valuable thing in life, and I don't want to waste it," he said once. Feeling a stab of pain on the eve of his latest mission to Europe (see The Administration), he told a close friend: "If it isn't cancer, then I feel the trip is too important to put off. If it is cancer, then any additional discomfort doesn't fundamentally matter anyway...
...minor Foreign Service job with the U.S. embassy in Berlin, and World War I turned the diplomatic pastime into a passion that never dwindled. After his elder brother Everit was killed in France with the A.E.F., Chris Herter resolved to make the achievement of peace his lifetime's mission...
...Algeria, who has now been made Commandant of Paris, an honorific post. But the sickness of the French army runs too deep to be cured by reassigning a few senior commanders. The real problem, as De Gaulle sees it, is to give France's young officers a mission more stimulating than colonial suppression...
Last week, clearly acting as De Gaulle's spokesman, Ely gave French officers a pep talk in the official National Defense Review, outlining their new mission. The Soviet bloc, wrote Ely, is not necessarily as monolithic as it looks. Already, he declared, "Russia, in its endeavors to catch up with American industrial and scientific developments, is moving toward a similar structure." If Red China persists in driving toward "true-blue Communism," the day might come when, between the Chinese threat and "a shift toward the old mystic spiritualism of the Slavs," a Christianized and "Americanized Russia . . . might return...
...that he demanded changes in the proposed new U.S.-Iranian agreement, to guard against invasion from Iraq as well as from Russia. It was hardly the kind of guarantee the U.S. could give. But in an attempt to bring the U.S. around, the Shah received a special Soviet diplomatic mission to his country to draft a new Soviet-Iranian nonaggression treaty (a tactic he had previously deplored when Egypt's President Nasser tried...