Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hero was Electronics Expert Horst Schwirkmann, 36, who, as West Germany's leading fumigator of mechanical bugs, had for ten years been a roving sleuth seeking out such pests as illicit wiretaps on telephones of Bonn's missions behind the Iron Curtain. Schwirkmann's work load was understandably heavy in Moscow, where this year the U.S. embassy alone discovered 40 hidden Russian microphones. Schwirkmann ferreted out a covey of bugs in the West German embassy. He also designed the mission's bugproof "tank," a compartment big enough for a handful of embassy officials to sit down...
...Galo Plaza said jubilantly, "Things are going in the right direction." He was also heartened by the imminent U.N. decision to continue the peacekeeping mission on Cyprus for another three months, and he cheerfully outlined his own strategy to newsmen. Unlike Tuomioja and U.S. Special Envoy Dean Acheson. Galo Plaza intends to do his mediating on Cyprus instead of in Geneva, and to concentrate on Makarios instead of on the governments of Turkey and Greece...
Third Choice. In France, Charles de Gaulle, whose vision of an independent community from the Atlantic to the Urals begins with independence at home, sets out next week on another apostolic mission, this time to Latin America, to preach the gospel of a French-led choice for smaller nations between the two superpowers. Frustrated in his efforts to use the Franco-German treaty to advance the hegemony of France in Europe, he too shows signs of restiveness, turning away from the Germans toward London...
...mission is "to help schools change -often radically-what they are doing," and it has become a fountain of reform for the whole...
Touring European capitals to explain U.S. policies in Viet Nam is rather too apt a way to spend those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. So U.S. Envoy Henry Cabot Lodge, 62, found it extraordinarily pleasant to take a day off from his mission for a visit to Rome's Ostia Beach with Italian Protocol Chief Guerino Roberti and his family. The latest details in the daily papers on the shifting sands in Saigon could only illustrate what a grind diplomacy is. But as Roberti's noble Roman daughter Cristina pointed out, there are compensations-and Lodge needed...