Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been rising all week, set off in part by the President's hasty dispatch of his top White House foreign relations advisor, McGeorge Bundy, to Saigon. Bundy's trip inevitably stirred speculation that the U.S. might be planning to expand the Vietnamese war, or, since the Bundy mission coincided with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin's visit to Hanoi (see THE WORLD), that the U.S. and the Communists were entering into negotiations. The President sharply and convincingly knocked down that idea-both with words and, at week's end, action...
Less than Enthusiastic. The Bundy mission also sparked speculation that Maxwell Taylors days as U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam are numbered. Taylor, of course, has been feuding openly with South Viet Nam's current leader, General Nguyen Khanh. Only last December President Johnson confided to an associate that he thought Taylor's tour of duty in Saigon might well end this spring: Taylor, he explained, has served the U.S. for many years, is tired, and wants a rest. Ironically enough, the deteriorating situation in Viet Nam has probably lengthened Taylor's tenure. For Johnson to recall...
...Cairo, Western diplomats in the tiny African mountain kingdom breathed a sigh of relief. So did Burundi's ruler, Mwami Mwambutsa IV, 53, who four days earlier had ordered the Chinese Communists to leave. The Mwami had ample reason to be angry. No sooner had Peking established a mission in Bujumbura, in January 1964, than Chinese money began to flow into the pockets of Burundi ministers and politicians. The Reds quickly allied themselves with discontented Watutsi refugees from neighboring Rwanda, inflaming their irredentist cause with propaganda and even arms. Chinese sympathizers were soon so numerous in the 64-member...
...country's youth to unaccustomed activities. To help make good his election promise of "no child without a school," Frei has recruited an unpaid hammer-and-nail corps of 1,500 university students to build schools in out-of-the-way places that have rarely seen a government mission of any kind. Local communities provide building materials, plus food and lodging for the student workers. The students expect to complete 100 classrooms during the present two-month vacation period and another 100 during the July break. Next year Frei hopes to recruit half of Chile...
...society is going to be radically changed." However, says Merton, before the Negro revolution ever nears fulfillment, the liberal will respond by "goosestepping down Massachusetts Avenue." If this vision seems extravagant, the author argues persuasively that the struggle is a preordained spiritual purgatory for the white man, a redemptive mission for the black...