Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consultant on Asian Communism at the University of Southern California and as a former newspaperman, I compliment TIME for its excellent cover story on Thailand's attempt at peaceful social revolution [May 27]. In Southeast Asia last summer with a State Department mission, I came to see that there is no substitute for concern-before the guerrillas come. As you show, both the U.S. and Thailand have learned this well...
...abortive launchings, prevented from docking with the Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) because its protective shroud had not shaken loose, the two astronauts were exhausted by three difficult but largely successful rendezvous attempts (TIME, June 10). Even so, the Gemini 9 crew hoped to salvage most of the mission by successfully completing their last and most dramatic assignment: Astronaut Cernan's scheduled 21-hour walk in space. "Hallelujah!" shouted Cernan as he opened his hatch and emerged into space on schedule...
...spitting jungles, across parched plains and into badlands withering under spidery trees, the desperate man plays hide-and-seek with his pursuers. Starving, he eats raw snails, shrubs, serpents. Trapped, he sets fires in his wake, or fights. Finally, days later, as he crawls to the safety of a mission fort, the white man waves toward the underbrush. The warriors' resolute leader (South African Actor Ken Gampu) salutes in return, and both men quit the field with honor...
...MISSION by Hans Habe. 319 pages. Coward-McCann...
...consider the problem of Nazi Germany's persecuted Jews. Nevertheless, Hitler was represented, if unofficially, at the conference in Evian-les-Bains, a French spa near the Swiss border. His emissary was Dr. Heinrich von Neumann, a Viennese Jew, who arrived on a strange and cold-blooded mission: to offer for sale, at $250 a head, 40,000 Austrian Jews...