Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning, TIME was frankly a digest of what others reported. Our mission still is to be concise; but our new high-speed transmitter shows how much TIME has become a magazine that sees for itself the complexity of events and hears the prolixity of talk before reducing it to an evening's reading. Our overseas correspondents file 975,000 words a month. Most of the words come from our 43 regular staff correspondents abroad, the rest from our valued, though little-sung, 120 part-time correspondents (or "stringers") in such out-of-the-way places as Zanzibar, Sarawak, Macao...
...truest measure of the U.S. Peace Corps-of its creed, its ideals, its constructive naivete and its basic worth-was put by a Peace Corpsman who died in the line of duty. Just before he was killed in a plane crash in Colombia while returning to his Peace Corps mission from a short holiday, David Crozier, 23, of West Plains, Mo., wrote to his parents: "Should it come to it, I had rather give my life trying to help someone than to give my life looking down a gun barrel at them...
...bridge on the highway 25 miles east of the capital was destroyed by dynamite; and four soldiers were killed in an F.A.L.N. ambush in the eastern mountains. So it has gone for more than a year-a government freighter hijacked, banks robbed, policemen murdered, hotels bombed, the U.S. military mission headquarters in Caracas burned...
...Mission of the Ckurch: "It is the continuation of Christ, and therefore is similar to a voyage in which the church lives and develops and continues the work of redemption; and although it manifests all the features of a great and evident human phenomenon, it is not just human. It is a certain continued Incarnation of Christ. The title which St. Paul will vindicate unto himself, as a distinctive 'apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God' is more than a personal vocation: it is a special mandate. The first action of the apostle must be that...
...imminence of the Kingdom of God and who dared to act in God's place by warning of the need for repentance. The Marburgers deny that Jesus explicitly claimed to be the Messiah, although Dinkier and Käsemann argue that he was conscious of his unique mission from God. It was in the light of the Resurrection-an event that Marburgers exclude from study as an event beyond the comprehension of scientific history-that the early church saw him as Messiah, and as the Christ, and so proclaimed him to the world...