Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last Confucian) contain detailed documentation of light infiltration by North Vietnamese until early March of 1962 and heavy infiltration from that time. The testimony of universally respected reporters, like Bill Mauldin, that the Viet Cong attacking Pleiku carried documents proving beyond doubt that they were part of a special mission form the North, is simply beyond dispute. Eighty tons of armament from the North were captured at Vung Ry Bay alone last Saturday. That the Pleiku attackers were not sheltered by the peasants because they were from the North proves may peasants are loyal...
...Administration could send a mission to Hanoi to find out just what concessions can be won from Ho Chi Minh. The U.S. has some strong bargaining points; ever since Vietnam has been split up, the North has suffered from agricultural shortages which can only be remedied by drawing on the giant rice fields in the South. Furthermore, Ho has not yet aligned himself with the Peking Communist bloc, and there is evidence that he might welcome the chance to end the war and use U.S. aid to make his nation less dependent on a threatening China...
...Counsel, then as Special Assistant to Sargent Shriver, and now as Secretary General of the International Secretariat for Volunteer Service. Recalling his work as a national director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Delano speaks in broad terms of his "commitment to public service," his "duty" to society, the mission of educated Americans in a world of rising expectations...
...most penetrating criticism, however, has come from people outside the Peace Corps, who acknowledge only its "fringe benefits" and argue that it should not be regarded as a substitute for real economic development. Eric Sevareid, for example, admits that the Corps gives "frustrated American youth a sense of mission" and adds "to our comprehension of other societies." But he warn that "while the Corps has something to do with spot benefits in a few isolated places, whether in sanitizing drinking water or building culverts its work has and can have, very little to do with the fundamental investments, reorganizations...
Impossible? Certainly. When Lewis and his men reeled back into St. Louis some 28 months later, they had spent all of $38,722.25. But in every essential respect they had accomplished their historic mission-and something more. They had astonished the age with their sagacity and fortitude; they had enacted for all posterity the great American epic of exploration...