Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Eartha Kitt guest-stars as a contortionist who lends her improbable talents to the Impossible Missions Force in an effort to catch a defector with nuclear secrets...
...extremist groups refused to talk to the diplomats, and they made only two excursions beyond the barbed wire surrounding their hotel, one of them to the Al Mansoura detention camp in hopes of interviewing political prisoners. The prisoners jeered wildly, refused to be interviewed. Instead of fact-finding, the mission then decided to make a videotape appearance on the government television station to appeal for order and cooperation...
...both extremist groups decided to greet them by calling a general strike and setting off a fresh wave of anti-British rioting. From Cairo, F.L.O.S.Y. Boss Abdul Qawee Mac-kawee smirkingly denied that he had ordered his commandos to kill five Brit ish soldiers a day during the U.N. mission's stay: "I wouldn't want to restrict our people. Perhaps they can kill more than that." Aden's bustling shops were boarded up, its streets patrolled by British armored cars, and its harbor emptied of ships...
...first manned test flight will just be going up then, a full year late. That does not necessarily mean a year's delay in trying for the moon, however. Since spacecraft, rocket and other production will continue throughout the coming year despite the lack of manned missions, Apollo equipment will be all set and ready to go-even allowing for last-minute modifications-almost as soon as each previous flight is ended. And the moon bid could come as soon as the third manned Apollo mission...
...dedicated to preaching God's peace should not have their hands stained with the blood of human war. Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie argues that mustering ministers "would destroy the symbolic value that the clergyman ought to have. He is to represent in this world that man whose mission was to die for others and not to kill them." Even so, there appears to be a growing consensus among ministers that, as the Christian Century recently argued, "the distinction and privilege granted to clergymen and ministerial students by the Selective Service Act preserve in the popular mind a repugnant...