Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alleged grading flaws, the Naval Academy last year won six Fulbright scholarships. But, of course, regardless of scholarship, present-day educators are bound to take a dim view of any institution in which there has never been a campus riot or a dirty-speech rally. The academy's mission is to prepare Americans to defend their country at sea. If the professors will consult their history books, they will find that, judging from the Navy's battle record, the academy does a pretty good...
...generals back with their units as soon as possible. The army is not being used in full strength now against the Communists. Rather it is being exploited for political purposes. An example is the regiment of the Seventh Division that is now in Saigon. I suppose its primary mission is to check on demonstrations, but it must have other missions. For example, there are many rumors that Ky intends to put Thieu out of power, or that Thieu intends to put Ky out of power. All the generals would be better off with their units, and the army would...
...Royal Australian Regiment and New Zealand Artillery Battalion counted a total of 59 enemy killed, 22 captured, and a 900-sq.-mi. area cleared of Viet Cong-at least for the time being. That left two major sweeps still in progress: Operation Nevada, a search-and-destroy mission by several U.S. Marine battalions in the Cape Batagan Peninsula, which has so far killed 42 Viet Cong, and Operation Fillmore, a sweep through Phu Yen province by the 101st Airborne Division, whose troopers have killed 149 of the enemy in the past 20 days...
...week's end, Rhodesia's Ian Smith announced that he no longer even wanted the Ioanna V's oil, since it would only aggravate the already messy diplomatic problems. In the next breath, he severed all remaining diplomatic ties with Britain by closing the British mission in Salisbury and Rhodesia House in London. He blasted Harold Wilson's government as "hypocritical," and-in a sly bit of one-upmanship-claimed that the U.N. resolution itself "unwittingly acknowledged Rhodesia's independence...
...instrument-crammed Soviet spaceship Luna 10 was busily recording and reporting man's first continuous supply of data about the lunar environment. Though the Russians did not tell all they learned, the information they did release confirmed that their distant capsule was carrying out its fact-finding mission with singular success...