Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AVENGERS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)* Charging into the program lineup, those English invincibles, John (Patrick Macnee) Steed and Emma (Diana Rigg) Peel, meet the inventor of a shrinking machine and wind up "livin' dolls" during "Mission: Highly Improbable...
...might spill over into Cambodia seemed suddenly more remote with the decision by Prince Norodom Sihanouk to discuss documented U.S. charges that his country is being used as a sanctuary by Communist troops. President Johnson chose Old Asia Hand Chester Bowles, 66, U.S. Ambassador to India, for the mission. He will try to work out an accommodation with Sihanouk, an old acquaintance, that would guarantee Cambodia's borders. Though Sihanouk last week accepted eleven airplanes, including three MIG-17 jets, and several dozen heavy guns from Communist China, he was talking buoyantly about the possibility of resuming diplomatic relations...
Next Step. Five days later, as U.S. officials probed the back corridors of diplomacy for confirmation, a North Vietnamese diplomat in Paris confirmed that Hanoi's position had indeed changed. Summoning Paris-based Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. Correspondent Bernard Redmont to the North Vietnamese mission, the diplomat, according to the reporter, said that if the bombings stop, peace talks will begin; he made no mention of Hanoi's repeated demand that the bombing pause must be permanent. "The next step," he told Redmont, "is up to President Johnson...
...Nigeria, Curle will say almost nothing. He admits being there last summer, before the outbreak of violence, "on a mission for the Quakers to look into the political situation." His language on activities since then is even vaguer...
Exulting, I hurried back over the huge cables to Nordo to report the success of my mission to my teammates. One by one the other ministers returned from their negotiations -- and unbelievably everyone has agreed to meet at the peace table...