Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just finished reading about Bernard Fall, the journalist who bravely gave his life for his country [March 3]. Just as his family, and friends, and the people of America are proud of him, I, too, am proud of my husband, the Marine photographer who accompanied Fall on his last mission. He was not only a dedicated Marine, but an excellent photographer, and the one and only most fabulous husband and father in the world. I'm not sure of my purpose in writing this letter. Maybe it is that I want you to know who the photographer...
...this context, I can explain my candidacy for SDS co-chairman. Unlike my friends who disrupted the meeting (they also made a complete mockery of the YR elections) I had a serious mission -- not to take over SDS by force (I did not organize the large-scale YR attendance), but to demonstrate the need for communication. I never anticipated election, although I would have served...
...MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). When a Communist film producer (J. D. Cannon) alters news films in order to depict U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam as murderers, the I.M. Force is sent on a search and destroy mission...
...before 100 farm leaders last week, "all the king's horses and all the king's men are not going to move us out of our position." Moreover, United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg pointed out on the eve of his departure on a presumed peace mission to five Asian capitals, including Saigon: "We do not ask our adversaries to accept, as a precondition to discussions or negotiations, any point of ours to which they may have objections...
...Personal Mission. Fall was the seventh correspondent to be killed in action in Viet Nam (another 30 have been wounded). A French citizen born in Vienna in 1926, he was fighting in the anti-Nazi underground by the time he was 16, first went to Viet Nam in 1953 to record the death struggle of the French army. He became fascinated by Viet Nam, and turned the task of understanding and explaining the agony, hopes, failures and confusion of the torn country into a personal mission. Armed with master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Syracuse...