Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Castroite terrorists have long made targets of Americans in Venezuela. In the past year the Castroite F.A.L.N. has bombed U.S. oil pipelines, set fire to U.S.-owned warehouses and stores, once boldly invaded the U.S. military mission and then put the place to the torch. "If the military advisers do not go home," warned the F.A.L.N. in a letter to the U.S. embassy, "Americans in Venezuela are going to be attacked." Last week the F.A.L.N. added kidnaping to its list of anti-American capers...
...President James A. Garfield only as a bragging pest who incessantly ailed at the White House to ask for "the Paris consulship." Guiteau, a lawyer and evangelist, described himself as an employee of "Jesus Christ & Co.," but wandering around Washington, sockless and absurd, he announced that his real mission was the salvation of unity in the Republican Party. At last he decided that God's will had ordained Garfield's death. He bought a .44-cal. revolver, tested it by firing at saplings along the Potomac, and went by the Washington jail to check on its comforts. "Very...
...confidently cooed that "at present, no clouds of misunderstanding darken the relations between Iran and the Soviet Union." But even as Brezhnev spoke, excited deputies whispered the latest news: 18 miles inside the Iranian border, three Soviet jets had shot down an unarmed Iranian plane on a photographic mapping mission for the Shah's land reform program, killing the Iranian surveyors. Unaware of the incident, amid cold stares from his audience, Brezhnev droned on, demonstrating once again the perils of what the Kremlin calls peace...
...paneled, portrait-hung board room on Manhattan's Park Avenue, headquarters of the Society. Founded in 1816, its first president was Elias Boudinot, a New Jersey Presbyterian who served as president of the Continental Congress. In 1819 it began supplying Bibles, New Testaments and extracts to overseas mission aries, and as of 1962 the grand total distributed had reached over 624 mil lion, in languages and dialects ranging from Apache to Zulu...
...study in one another's countries. Faced with the news of Barghoorn's arrest, President Kennedy postponed negotiations for an extension of the exchange program, firmly gave the official U.S. answer to the Russian charge: "He is a distinguished scholar. He was not on an intelligence mission of any kind...