Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. Director Martin Ritt (Hud) has made John le Carré's novel into a masterly spy thriller, with Richard Burton giving his best movie performance as the worn-out British intelligence hack on a fateful mission...
Peking also suspected that Shelepin's mission to Hanoi might have a pacifying motive. "Before taking the decision to send Shelepin," insisted Radio Peking, "the Soviet Union was undoubtedly tipped off by the U.S. about its pause in bombing." In any case Shelepin's visit could indeed help determine whether or not a "signal" ever comes from Hanoi. For the war in Viet Nam is more and more the chief ideological dueling ground of the Sino-Soviet quarrel...
...scholarly Edgar Faure, 57, who as Radical Socialist Premier attended the Big Four summit at Geneva in 1955 and is a supporter of the Common Market. One of the few politicians of the Fourth Republic to gain the inner circle with De Gaulle, Faure was the emissary whose mission to Peking in 1963 was followed shortly afterwards by French recognition of Red China. His most important task will be to promote Common Market farm negotiations, and his appointment was clearly designed to placate the massive agricultural vote alienated in December by De Gaulle's hostility to the Common Market...
Though it was billed as a "goodwill mission" for the U.S., speculation around Washington had it that Johnson's real aim was to drum up some good will for Humphrey. A recent Gallup poll found that 56% of U.S. voters thought Humphrey would not get the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, and 58% did not want to see him elected President...
...Battles. Under a more formal program, more than 1,000 experts with the U.S. Operations Mission are distributing more than $500 million a year in economic assistance, training civil servants in a dozen Saigon ministries and advising local officials. USOM in the past five years has helped build 4,682 classrooms, drill 1,900 fresh-water wells, set up 12,000 village health clinics and establish 718 factories. In 1965 alone, it bought 7,000,000 textbooks, and later this month will inaugurate a television network designed to reach-and help unify-close to half of the country...