Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inevitably, Yevtushenko has come to his role as social critic through a desire to purify the Revolution, and hark back to the principles of Lenin and Marx. This was not always his mission, but there were portents of it in his early youth. The Autobiography as a chronical of Yevtushenko's political development--a side of the man which transcends his poetry--is a valuable work...
Under well-established international practice, embassy property is regarded as inviolable even after a break in diplomatic relations. Castro, who needs no precedents, said he was merely retaliating for the recent freeze clamped on Cuban assets in the U.S. He ordered out the Swiss mission that has occupied and managed the embassy for the U.S. since...
Titan HI has no definite military mission. The Air Force hopes to use it to launch Dyna-Soar, its controversial steerable satellite that (it is hoped) will be able to maneuver freely in orbit and land where it will. Another Air Force hope for Titan III is MODS: an inhabitable satellite ten feet in diameter with a crew of two or three...
...capital's entire ambassadorial corps. Dean since 1958, Sevilla-Sacasa attends about 600 official functions a year, greets every chief of state who visits Washington. To avoid contretemps, he has to remember the names, faces and precise protocol standings of each of the 111 other chiefs of mission in Washington, as well as the niceties of amity or animosity among the various countries...
...today. They need help, and this is what I am here for." One highly important help is Sevilla-Sacasa's method for introducing a newly arrived ambassador to the other envoys. It used to be that a new ambassador was required to call upon each chief of mission separately as soon as possible after arriving at his post. In Washington today, a new envoy working at the rate of one call a day would have to devote five months to meeting that requirement. At his own expense, Sevilla-Sacasa established a quarterly gathering of the ambassadorial corps, with...