Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials to see whether a compromise government could be pasted together that would satisfy both sides. Bundy spent ten busy days sounding out officials, learned that the man Washington had in mind to head the government had no real support and could offer no guarantees against Communist domination. The mission was unsuccessful, but not for lack of trying...
...American Conservative Union sets itself a proselytizing mission, to develop and articulate the conservative position on major issues. William Buckley, John Chamberlain, Lewis Strauss and Arthur Radford are among the leading members. It resembles the new Goldwater group. But A.C.U. Chairman Donald Bruce says: "We're not being swallowed by anybody...
...single Viet Cong body was found, although the searchers drew steady sniper fire, showing that Communists were still in the area. In an abandoned cave, the searchers found Viet Cong communications equipment and teakettles still warm to the touch. This led Washington officials to claim that the mission had been a success: the bombers had forced the Viet Cong to break and run. More skeptical officers looked at it another way: the bombing raid had been so ineffective that it had not even tipped over the teapots...
...expected to see the weapon that was called in last week. It was the B-52 Stratofortress, that eight-jet colossus of the Strategic Air Command whose normal function is toting H-bombs round the world in constant cold war vigilance against attack on the U.S. On this mission, the Stratoforts-30 of them-carried conventional bombs and the seeds of a quite unconventional controversy. For their target was one against which most airmen would never think of employing strategic bombers...
Though Wilson's scheme had the backing of the U.S. and at least tacit support from 16 Commonwealth members, there was more than a little doubt that the mission would get under way next month as Wilson hoped. Even if the Russians ultimately agree to the team's visit, Peking and Hanoi probably will not. Last April, when Wilson's emissary, Patrick Gordon Walker, set off on a similar mission, they would not even receive...