Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What a display of poor taste were your pictures. Is TIME one of those publications that feels it has a mission to educate the U.S. public to the ugly facts of the rest of the world...
...overwhelming U.N. endorsement of U.S. disarmament proposals despite fierce Soviet opposition. In 1954 he got a lopsided majority for a U.S. resolution to 1) condemn Red China for refusing to free 15 captured U.S. airmen, and 2) send Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to China on a mission that eventually secured the air men's freedom. After the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian revolt in 1956, Lodge mustered 55 votes for condemnation, even though the British-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt had badly blurred the issue...
...Know, Brethren . . ." The Deputy Premier's mission was a sign of the split personality of the new government, which seems to speak with two voices. One voice belongs to Premier el-Kassim, a bachelor and simple soldier who has resolutely avoided the usual pastime of denouncing Israel, or even of damning the U.S. Marine Corps landings in Lebanon ("I do not believe the Americans will engage in any hostilities"). The other voice is that of 39-year-old Aref, onetime military student of El-Kassim's and, significantly, the only other man to know the exact hour...
...chief Communist weapon is smearing the U.S. and U.S. business. Newspapers trumpet wild charges, e.g., that the U.S. military advisory mission is plotting a coup. U.S. housewives on shopping trips have been heckled with shouts of "Yankee go home," and on Caracas' new Armed Forces Avenue, crude painted signs urge "death to the imperialistic Yankees." Venezuelan schoolchildren only seven and eight years old came out of one grammar school chanting memorized anti-U.S. slogans. In good-humored rebuttal, U.S. oilmen, who have kept Venezuelan oil flowing through dictatorship and revolution, are forming the SPCAID-"Society for the Prevention...
...same community, the question arose: Just where could the Matimbas go? At first, Patrick, the son of a Negro Anglican priest, helpfully offered to become his own wife's servant -the only kind of Negro permitted to live among Europeans. Then Saint Faith's Anglican Mission, in the white tobacco-growing settlement of Rusape, where his father had worked, gave Patrick a job as a ?12-a-month storekeeper, and two rooms where he and his family could live together in the mission. It seemed a satisfactory solution-until the whites of Rusape, many of whom migrated from...