Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supercarrier Saratoga, pride of the Sixth Fleet, the Navy's job for the day was to pound Douglas AD Skyraider bombers and Chance Vought F8U1 Crusader fighters out of steam catapults into a Mediterranean haze amid jet engine roars, catapult cracks, clouds of hissing white steam. The mission: to show the silver of Navy air power over Lebanon. But Saratoga's jet pilots, like all Navy pilots off Lebanon, got word to steer clear of a certain point just south of the predominantly Moslem port of Tripoli. Reason: a Nasserite rebel sniper holed up there had scored...
Force That Exists. In a sense the restraint aspect of Admiral Holloway's mission got more punditry last week-not to mention frustration, sneers, even mirth-than the greater fact of Admiral Holloway's great strength. But in a week of mixed-up and shifting developments in Washington, Moscow, the Middle East and the U.N., it was Admiral Holloway's show of force-restrained, not brandished-that was the single most important point about the whole Middle East can-of-worms crisis, simply because the force was there...
...make certain that Chamoun does not use U.S. marines to keep himself in power. Murphy had behind him President Eisenhower's explicit statement that the U.S. accepts Chamoun's declaration that he will not try for a second term. It was Murphy's delicate, difficult mission to try to "orchestrate" a new solution among the squabbling Lebanese, so that the marines can go back to their ships...
...actually dragged through the streets of Baghdad."* Then, doggedly, but with difficulty. Lodge tried to get around the touchy point that the U.N. was already on the scene in Lebanon. He praised the work of the U.N. observers, while at the same time declaring them inadequate to fulfill their mission. The presence of U.S. troops, he said, "is designed for the sole purpose of helping the government of Lebanon, at its request, in its efforts to stabilize the situation, brought on by the threats from outside." The U.S. would move out just as soon as U.N. troops moved...
...When churches fail to be "merciful neighbors," they misunderstand vast social changes, said Germany's Dr. Martin Niemoeller to a Christian World Mission meeting in Silver Bay, N.Y. "The Socialist movement grew in Europe without any assistance or correction from the Christian churches, and the way was paved for the atheistic Communist system which has found its bulwark in Russia. The churches ought to have shown a Christian and human way of dealing with the growing crisis of coexistence between East and West. But they were and are hopelessly linked to the bourgeois world. They did not even...