Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chances of getting into North Viet Nam. For months he heard nothing. Then, in the middle of last month's furor over charges that the U.S. had bombed civilian sections of Hanoi, Salisbury got the go-ahead. Picking up a visa at North Viet Nam's diplomatic mission in Paris, he flew to the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh, there boarded a Hanoi-bound flight with members of the three-nation International Control Commission whose job it is to supervise the 1954 agreement that divided Viet Nam. He arrived in North Viet Nam two days before Christmas, filed...
...force Viet Cong units operate out of U Minh, "The Forest of Darkness," and Air Force fighter-bombers pounded the drop area with bombs and napalm before the big jump-largest in more than a year. Another 4,800 South Vietnamese infantrymen were helilifted into the search-and-destroy mission, which in its first two days netted 89 enemy dead and a rich cache of weapons. More important, it may well be a prelude to the imminent entry of U.S. troops into the Delta...
FLAP: Order of magnitude, expedite, implement, reorient, interoccupational mobility, mission oriented...
...Wake Island on the way to bases in the Philippines, Guam, Thailand and Viet Nam, Hope observed that Evangelist Billy Graham had just left Wake en route to Viet Nam and that New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman would be stopping over soon as he began his Christmas mission to the war zone. Cracked Hope: "That's the kind of book ends I like on a trip like this...
...does away with the necessity of disposing of its major ingredient in space, and scientists calculate that because a MONEX W rocket will manufacture part of its fuel in flight, it will actually have less lift-off weight than a conventionally fueled rocket designed for the same long-range mission...