Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five weeks in the local hotel, the hostages included 21 Catholic priests and brothers, 17 nuns, and a British accountant who was considered an American spy because he owned a pair of binoculars. On the night of Nov. 16, more than a week before the joint U.S.-Belgian rescue mission began, the Simbas puffed themselves into a fury on bamboo pipeloads of Indian hemp. Then they dragged the nuns out of the hotel, forced them to strip, and made them "dance" by shooting at their feet. Then the Simbas took their pleasure...
Whether Zond had enough zip to overtake Mariner was not clear. But the question seemed academic. Even if Zond gets there first, it may not be able to manage its mission; its power supply seems to be failing...
Wasolo, where "Doctor Paul" maintained his medical mission, is a sudden clearing on the turn of a jungle road 800 miles northeast of Leopoldville and a million miles from nowhere. In Lingala, the lingua franca of the region, the place is aptly called "The End of the World." The Africans have beaten down the sobi grass around their huts in fear of snakes; beyond rises a wall of impenetrable rain forest. The hospital compound dominates a low hill. The house itself is red brick, and in the rainy season its roof pours drinking water into barrels standing beneath the eaves...
Mariner's mission is manifold. During its journey away from the sun, it will radio back information on radiation, magnetic fields and micrometeorites. If all goes perfectly, it is supposed to, transmit data on the density of the Martian atmosphere that could be invaluable to U.S. scientists who are hoping to land a capsule there by 1969. As a final dividend, it will also try to take 22 still pictures with a television camera during a 30-minute flyby some 8,600 miles from the red planet. The pictures will be transmitted to earth from 150 million miles...
...Paul VI will add 8,000 miles to his record as the most travel-minded Pope of history by flying from Rome to Bombay for Roman Catholicism's 38th Eucharistic Congress. The Pope's four-day visit to India is intended to symbolize his concern for the mission church, and for Catholicism's witness to the non-Christian world...