Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, Podgorny's visit was almost certainly more of a political reconnaissance than a mission of condolence; it was a classic essay in the kind of duplex diplomacy at which the Russians are masters: talking on one level while acting?or failing to act?on another. Despite the noise and despite even the MIGS, the Russians were obviously playing for time. As evidenced at Holly Bush, Kosygin's visit to the U.S. was also at once a holding action and a salvage operation. Longer-range Russian tactics remained unclear?probably to the Russians themselves...
...delegates quickly adopted the agenda-discussion of peace in the Middle East-and adjourned for the weekend, to commence serious debate this week. As the highest-ranking Russian visitor to the U.N. since Khrushchev's blucher-banging sortie in 1960, Kosygin was a man with a mission. Having failed to bail out their Arab client-states on the battlefields, the Soviets sought to use diplomacy to deny the Israelis the heady wine of victory...
...most part, though, missionaries are accepting the conversions as a genuine response to the message of Christ. The Rev. Addison J. Eastman, mission director of the National Council of Churches' Asia department, believes that many of the converts are inspired by "a personal faith, and real hope that the Christian church can provide a base from which to work for humane social progress...
Declaring that "the mission of life is to perfect the self," Kagan pointed out "the seeds of a new morality" may lie in the urge to make "an effect on society" and to become involved with others...
...increasing possibility of war sent students into a new activity, volunteer military training. Captain Cordelier, of the French Mission, started a volunteer University regiment in 1916. During that year, 1400, or onefourth of the University, volunteered for it. An Aero Corps of 52 students was started the same year, and CRIMSON editorials favored the idea of universal military service. By January of 1917, a poll showed 72 per cent of Harvard students in favor of conscription. There were rumors that the Harvard campus might be used in the summer as a training camp, and that Harvard might even close down...