Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first go to the Americans," she purrs, "and if they don't tell me, then I go to the Vietnamese-they always tell me everything." As a freelancer, she recently spent eight days with the Green Berets. Grateful for her presence, they named a search-and-clear mission "Operation Michele" in her honor. The Green Berets got 15 Viet Cong, and Michele got leeches on her long, lovely legs. But she enjoyed the mission because "on small operations you are more like the Viet Cong. It is more sporting and more dangerous...
...police chief. Ky refused, but attempted to mollify the southerners by accepting the resignation of Health Minister Nguyen Ba Kha. In response, seven of the 26 members of Ky's Cabinet resigned-including able Finance Minister Au Truong Thanh, who was in the middle of a government mission to Washington and had to cable his resignation...
...before they are launched - and precious few afterward - they cannot keep their secrets for very long. Soon after a Soviet space craft has gone into orbit, U.S. Air Force scientists not only record its speed and plot its orbit but determine its size and shape and often deduce its mission. Their spatial detective work is made possible by radar signature analysis (RSA), a little-known technique that may some day be used to save the U.S. from a sneak attack...
Kotch's lame-brain mission on the coast is to heist a bank at Los Angeles International Airport. His tiny task force bides time until all the security chaps for miles around are pooling sweat over the arrival of a Soviet Premier. Nothing goes off on schedule except the robbery itself, and that's a pittance, for it turns out that the hero might have got richer going straight...
Denis Hillier, a middle-aged spy looking forward to retirement, embarks on his last mission: to kidnap a turncoat British scientist named Roper, who is cooking rocket fuel for Russia. Adventures both sexual and gastronomic occur en route, for Hillier is a gluttonous satyr. Men die bloodily, some of them propelled into the hereafter by Hillier himself. The mission fails, not for want of Hillier's trying, but because his quarry refuses to go back...