Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still another signal flashed from Paris. There, Mai Van Bo, head of Hanoi's diplomatic mission, said that if the U.S. stopped bombing the North and then suggested peace talks, "I believe this proposal would be examined and studied." However, added Mai, the U.S. should expect "no reciprocity whatever" for stopping the bombing...
...Tape Recording. Mao chose the People's Liberation Army, as one instrument to spread the revolution, and put Defense Minister Lin Piao to work preparing it for its mission of spreading the gospel-and trying to ensure its loyalty, which is the key to much that happens in Red China. Always far more than a fighting machine, the P.L.A engages in everything from road and dam construction to social services to making propaganda movies. A year before the Revolution got under way, Lin abolished ranks in the P.L.A., a hint of how far back toward some vision of beneficent...
...defused eight additional bombs, including a packet of four dynamite sticks discovered near the office of the governor of Jerusalem. As a result, security guards were doubled at government buildings, and guards frisked passersby for explosives. Jordanian police arrested two infiltrators from Syria who, police said, were on a mission to assassinate King Hussein...
...have lots of fun with a Lutheran minister discussing matters of theology, but that's not good enough. The ecumenical movement must be formed into a united Church witness to the world; we must reach some common understanding on the Church's mission in the temporal order," he said...
Next week Mrs. Gandhi undertakes another mission of personal diplomacy -this time with the Mizos, a fiercely proud tribe of 260,000 hill people in Eastern India who resent being governed by lowland Assamese and have been showing their displeasure by blocking roads, raiding towns, and attacking Indian Army patrols. Indira's father, Jawaharlal Nehru, promised the Mizos a "Scottish solution," which would grant them a measure of local autonomy. Indira is expected to renew the offer...