Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is no nobler mission that our nation could perform...
Abruptly, Marek Hlasko returned to West Berlin, reportedly approached the resident Polish military mission to ask about returning to Warsaw. After dropping out of sight for a lost weekend, he surfaced at Tempelhof airdrome with a flight ticket to Tel Aviv and an Israeli tourist visa good until March. Landing in Israel last week, unshaven and fatigued, Hlasko holed up in an obscure hotel for 24 hours before joining up with Jan Rojewski, an old Polish friend who now lives in an Israeli kibbutz...
...charge may well provoke a wry smile in Frondizi -for he thinks that the U.S., far from "buying" any Latin American, neglects its obligations to its neighbors. Saying so, diplomatically but succinctly, to Congress and the press was his major mission as he visited the U.S. And even as he served as his people's advocate, his government had to fight back his misguided opponents at home...
...Mission & Unity. The most important problem facing the church today. Bishop Lichtenberger feels, is a renewal of the sense of mission and of unity. In his inaugural address last week, he spoke on both of them. On mission: "The church comes to man not in his extremity, at the point where all else fails. The church stands not on the outskirts but in the center of the town." On unity: "I believe we are finding our way, by God's grace, into a deeper unity within our own communion. We are coming to understand more clearly what it means...
...trial, Art Historian Réau admitted that he had authenticated a Fragonard on the basis of a photograph. This was current procedure, he pleaded. Snapped the public prosecutor: "When Réau and Cordovado betray their mission to protect the public, which is their moral duty, we have a twilight of the art critic gods...