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Word: missions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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There appears to be no way to stop the slaughter. Despite extensive contrary evidence, the Rwanda government denies that the Tutsi are being massacred. A five-man UN mission investigated Tutsi raids, but was unable to discover much; presumably, the Parmehutu officials in Rwanda were uncooperative. Assemblies of African states, preoccupied with military revolts in Uganda and Tanganyika, have been reluctant to intervene...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: Silent Massacre | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

Once again, the savage Jeunesse of Kwilu province were on the rampage. This time the rebel killers chose the helpless little Roman Catholic mission at Makungika, 30 miles from Kikwit, the provincial capital. The attack came late one afternoon just as the mission staff-five French Canadian brothers, three Belgian Jesuit priests, five young Belgian lay teachers, and two wives-were going to the refectory for coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Again, the Savages | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...There were about 30 of them," recalls Brother Maurice Désfossés, 47, the mission superior. "They had wild, glassy eyes and were naked to the waist. They had been smoking hemp." After asking for money, the rebels ordered the missionaries to their knees. "They let go with arrows and guns," said Canadian Sacred Heart Brother Jean-Guy Bruneau, 29. "Marechal [one of the lay teachers] fell on me, dead. I took a shot through the wrist that almost tore off my finger." Brother Maurice tried to run, but was hit in the leg with an arrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Again, the Savages | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...Yale Russian Chorus has enjoyed five successful trips to the Soviet Union and three tours of Europe. But the thirty or so students, faculty, and alumni of Yale carried off their most challenging mission in cultural exchange last Saturday night. Few would have guessed that Yalies would receive a standing ovation and demands for half a dozen encores, from a Harvard audience...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: Yale Russian Chorus | 3/2/1964 | See Source »

...Bobby Darin), a sad sack in a flat funk until Peck shoots him full of s.p. For about ten minutes Bobby lies on a cot making faces like Harpo Marx, and then zowie! he's cured. He flies back to his unit, takes off on a bombing mission, runs into flak and- Well, who cares about the patients when nurses like Angie Dickinson are on duty-not to mention Tony Curtis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nervous in the Service | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

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