Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WILLIAM F. PRUITT American Presbyterian Congo Mission Lulabourg, Republic of Congo...
Donovan's mission was made all the more unseemly by other events that took place last week. At the U.N., Cuba's President Osvaldo Dorticos spieled forth a ranting attack, accusing the U.S. of "aggressive hysteria" and "hunger for domination." In Havana, Castro made a chestthumping speech gibing at U.S. fears that an attack on Cuba will lead to nuclear war with Russia. And in the U.S. Congress, New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating said that U.S. intelligence had detected six additional missile sites under construction in Cuba. The Administration, charged Keating, was keeping...
...Amiable Fiction." Against this background. Donovan's mission to Havana would have seemed dubious even if it had been an open, honest attempt...
This insistence drew some sharp journalistic fire. The New York Times's James Reston charged that the Administration merely "added to the confusion about Cuba" by disclaiming any connection with Donovan's mission. Liberal Washington Columnist William V. Shannon wrote that the "amiable fiction" about the prisoner negotiations is wrong on two counts: 1) the President of the U.S. "ought not to be a party to practicing a deception on the people and the Congress," and 2) "this kind of secret will not keep, and its disclosure is always embarrassing...
THURSDAY, Oct. 4 -- President Pusey, speaking in Chicago before the American Council on Education, called for a more considerable middle ground between the present "largely mission - oriented federal programs on the one hand and an unwanted and dangerous program of general federal support for higher education on the other." Pusey made public for the first time the results of the Carnegie study of the "new, complicated, imperfect, but incalculably significant and promising relation" between the federal government and universities. Pusey was chairman of a special advisory committee of university presidents which guided the Carnegie study staff. The report combines separate...