Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy won? The post of whip,* after all, usually carries with it more drudgery than drama. As a factotum and deputy of the majority leader, the whip must help keep routine business flowing. He must also try to maintain party discipline on key issues, which is frequently a futile mission among independent-minded Senators and committee chairmen who are in some cases more powerful than the nominal party leaders. Once party policy on a given issue is established, the whip should defend it. He must serve as a link between the leadership and the rank and file...
...were similar messages from U.N. Secretary General U Thant, French President Charles de Gaulle, Premier Eisaku Sato of Japan, King Hassan of Morocco and a host of other world leaders. Even Havana radio contributed to worldwide reaction by presenting lengthy and approving appraisals of Apollo 8's moon mission...
...WASTE BY PENTAGON, LYNDA BIRD'S PAL WINS CHILE POST and ARMY'S M-16 PROGRAM is "UNBELIEVABLE." All appeared above exclusive stories produced by what the Associated Press calls its Special Assignment Team, a group of Washington-based reporters with deceptively everyday faces and an unusual mission: to ignore daily deadlines in search of what its leader calls "the submerged dimension" of the federal government...
...Mission control proclaims a perfect launching for Apollo 11, the first successful attempt to put three men and a diabetic otter in orbit around the moon. Rhody McCoy throws his hat into the New York Mayoralty race...
...raiders returned to base unscathed, but Israel's image did not fare quite so well. The attack on relatively peaceable Beirut seemed a case of excessive vengeance hardly tailored to the crime of the two Arab terrorists in Athens. The pair happened to set out on their mission against an Israeli airliner from Lebanon-but could have started from anywhere. In any case, they and their extremist colleagues are now largely operating independently of all Arab governments. The U.S. State Department called in the ranking Israeli diplomat in Washington to protest the raid "in the strongest possible terms...