Word: missions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Taken by surprise, the Russians made a futile attempt to name as the fact-finding mission the old 1954 Indo-China International Control Commission, which included Poland. But after behind-the-scenes bargaining, the Assembly decided to let Sosa Rodriguez choose the delegation. He appointed to it the U.N. representatives of Afghanistan, Brazil, Ceylon, Costa Rica, Dahomey, Morocco and Nepal. The mission was expected to leave this week...
After the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reported to the President on their recent mission to South Vietnam, the White House issued a statement saying that the military program against the "externally stimulated and supported insurgency of the Vietcong" has made progress and "is sound in principle." Most news reports confirm that the military situation in certain areas has improved in the last one or two years. Nevertheless, neither these reports nor the White House statement answer the question put to Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Sylvester during the fact-finding mission: What...
...McNamara-Taylor trip may have been a fact-finding mission, but it was also an effort to cover quickly the rifts among the agencies concerned with the war. The Administration cannot debate in public whether to assassinate an ally. In his understandable desire to stop any squabbles, the President took a position between the extremes advocated by his subordinates. The danger is that this position will not be adjusted to confirm with the facts that McNamara and Taylor must have found and those that the reliable non-governmental sources report. After the politically loaded Republican reaction to the wheat sale...
Time Bomb. Sometimes, however, the correspondents' sense of mission gets them into a different sort of trouble. It raises the question: Have they given their readers an unduly pessimistic view of the progress of the war and the quality of the Diem government...
...lead out, changed the body type and headline style. The paper fairly dripped with zeal. Says one ex-staffer: "It was like being in on the early days of Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, TIME or The New Yorker. We all felt that we were part of a mission." The pages blossomed with news from the Star-Tribune's Washington bureau; there was a weekend wrap-up section, features on abortions, Viet Nam, the county fair and Black Muslims. Three editions blanketed the Valley every day. But circulation increased by only 1,500 copies; the paper lost about...