Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...musical special, "Let the Desert Be Joyful," featuring the Tucson Boys Chorus performing at the 18th century Spanish mission, San Xavier del Bac, known as "the white dove of the desert...
...move toward repairing the damage, the 14 NATO military members formed a new high council to study a whole new defense system: the Defense Planning Committee. They also set up the new seven-nation Nuclear Planning Group, of which West Germany is a key member. The group's mission will be to select targets, deploy NATO's 7,000 warhead nuclear force, and recommend when, if ever, to fire in anger. But the ownership of the weapons and final decision to fire remain with the U.S. The hope is that the new committee will satisfy the West German...
...become a "co-ordinate college." Just like us. Of course the alliteration should be a clue that the may is to become will. Vassar President Simpson's acceptance of Yale's invitation to study the plan was demur enough. But he couldn't stop an alliterative joy -- "modern mission," "historic home," "properly preserved," "prodigious problems" -- from bubbling through his statement...
...chamber of the U.N. Security Council last week, there was an unsettling sense of history repeated. The gallery was crowded, and delegates representing most of the world's nations stood in knots on the floor as British Foreign Secretary George Brown began to address the Council. His mission was the product of failure. He had come to ask the U.N. to impose mandatory economic sanctions on Rhodesia, and in the minds of many diplomats present was the ghost of the old League of Nations -which began to fall apart 30 years ago when it proved unable to enforce economic...
Orbiter is scheduled to complete the tedious transmission of its pictures by Dec. 10. Shortly afterward, having carried out a practically perfect mission, it will be ordered to fire its retrorocket, drop out of orbit and plunge to destruction on the moon below...