Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...housing in the Mission Hill area would be open to other members of the community, to students, and to employees of the area medical institutions...
...land to be used for the housing will be Harvard-owned in a currently unoccupied and undeveloped area in Mission Hill...
...telegram from the State Department to Dean Ford, thanking Harvard for allowing Kissinger to go to South Vietnam on a "mission of great importance." In a statement last night, Ford said, "It continues to be my understanding that the express purpose of [Kissinger's mission] was to move toward negotiations for peace...
...force mission is to provide close air support for ground troops and handle the logistical needs of the South Vietnamese army. Like the army, the air force is now being equipped and trained by the U.S. to operate eventually on its own. Toward that goal the V.N.A.F. has been given about 100 helicopters, with three times that many still to come. C-47 cargo planes are being supplemented by bigger C-119s. One fighter squadron is already flying supersonic F-5 jets...
...they had known were the Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, which they called Washington beolta, the public schools, which they called belagona beolta (white man's schools), or the mission schools, called eeneishoodi beolta (for "those who drag their clothes," meaning the first Catholic priests who came to the reservation). The Navaho likes none of those places. White men's creations, they separate children from their families and tribal traditions, are largely inadequate, and have succeeded mainly in teaching young Indians to feel like second-class citizens. As one result, Indians have the country's highest illiteracy...