Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...areas. The Navy's readiness to use Marine amphibious forces is part of the Navy's traditional role in "limited situations." And the Air Force's Tactical Air Command and some SAC units could be diverted to limited wars without limiting SAC's overall retaliatory mission...
Washington, denouncing the whole fantastic plot as a "fabrication," promptly retaliated. It expelled the Syrian ambassador, Dr. Farid Zeineddine, a garrulous and haughty diplomat who has never been a State Department favorite anyway. It was the first time the U.S. has declared a chief of mission persona non grata since Robert Lansing handed the Austro-Hungarian ambassador his walking papers in 1915. The State Department also announced that U.S. Ambassador to Syria James Moose (one of only three U.S. ambassadors in the Arab world who can speak the language) would not return to his Damascus post...
...King's concrete accomplishments in Moscow, according to the official communique, added up to the creation of a joint Russian-Afghan trading mission, the granting to the Russians of the right to begin "disinterested" explorations for oil in the arid wastes of northern Afghanistan (a similar request by the French was rejected by the Afghans under Russian pressure in 1952) and an agreement to send more Afghan students to the U.S.S.R. for training...
...churches should start a mission to athletes, says Carty. College chaplains should challenge coaches and players to become "Christian sports" and "persuade alumni to ease off on this pressure for victory streaks and place the pressure . . . on fun and 're-creation.' Until this is done, our games are going to be pagan festivals, not Christian contests...
...Smuggler Howard is mildly excusable (until the last reel, he doesn't know what Howard looks like), his tunnel vision in losing Anita's high-heeled trail is like getting lost on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Teamed up with a big array of foreign flatfeet to perform his mission, Mature grandstands it like a one-man beachhead in dodging the stilettos of a murderous band of toughs who jump him in a sleazy Roman hotel. This Donnybrook provokes the most sensible twist of the entire plot: a Roman police captain, Mature's own colleague, orders him tossed into...