Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Load per man for a two-day mission: Claymore mine and 240 rounds of ammo; four canteens of water and three meals of dried meat with rice; compass, flare gun, signal mirror, orange-and-cerise panel to signal for help; morphine for wounds, pep pills for drowsiness, codeine to kill coughs that might betray a position, antidysentery pills; tape to ward off leeches by closing off wrists and ankles of uniforms...
...brush into jungle salad. Brown "popped smoke"-yellow signal grenades-to bring in the choppers, and while hovering Huey gunships laced the weeds with rockets and .50-cal. bullets, Team Two made its getaway, mission accomplished...
...Secretary General U Thant, on a peace mission to Cairo, yesterday prepared to meet with President Gamal Abdel Nasser, as thousands of Egyptians massed near his hotel shouted "We want...
...three-year seminary education. More than 60% of Episcopal seminarians graduated from college with average grades of C or below. Of all Episcopal clergymen, more than 12% never graduated from college at all. Worse, said Pusey, seminary training itself is "dated" and often irrelevant to the church's mission in slums. Cash is urgently needed for improvement. As it stands, Episcopalians are contributing to theological education at the rate of only 40? apiece per year...
...doctors found hospital conditions "far below U.S. Standards." Dr. Constable pointed out that "there are lots of flies around, no uniformed nurses, and generally very crowded conditions." He said that the mission saw no civilians with third-degree burns (the most serious), and therefore concluded that people so afflicted just never managed to get to the hospitals...