Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME Correspondent James Wilde, a veteran of Algeria and Viet Nam, and for Photographer Priya Ramrakha, such hardships are hardly unusual. On and off, they spent four days with a Biafran commando unit behind enemy lines, crawled through the brush with a Biafran sergeant on a reconnaissance mission, joined white mercenaries leading a dangerous ambush. What really troubled Wilde about this assignment was what he saw happening to Biafra and its people. "A chaplain travels from village to village administering last rites to the dying and blessing the heaps of the already dead," wrote Wilde. "Vultures screech in the brooding...
...Senator Charles Percy pledged their help, while Washington's Daniel Evans, Rhode Island's John Chafee and Colorado's John Love-all three Rockefeller men-signed up for posts on the candidate's "key issues" committee. Nixon, comfortably ensconced at San Diego's Mission Bay resort, talked by phone with John Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller, inviting Rocky to his Fifth Avenue apartment (which, as it happens, is right next door to the Governor's) this week for a chat on his role in the campaign. Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, an early Rockefeller...
...boxes in front of foreign embassies, ostensibly to keep the Congolese from contacting foreigners but in reality to isolate the large Chinese Embassy staff. Massamba-Debat also re-established relations with Great Britain, which were broken over the Rhodesia crisis 21 years ago. He even hinted that a U.S. mission, pulled out in 1965 because of ill-treatment of American diplomats, might again be welcome. Last month he climaxed his drive by dissolving the leftist-dominated National Assembly and by having several leaders of Jeunesse and his own party arrested...
...Republicans seek to win. They could attempt to capitalize on the electorate's fears and frustrations by promising the cheap and the quick: a smaller tax bite for the middle class and a bigger night stick for the ghetto. Or they could attempt the far more demanding mission of conducting what Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer calls "the politics of realism"-of identifying the direction to be taken and setting the difficult course for the journey...
Died. Major General Robert F. Worley, 48, deputy commander of the American Seventh Air Force and the third American general to die in Viet Nam; when his RF-4C Phantom jet was hit by enemy ground fire while on a reconnaissance mission; near Hué. A longtime fighter pilot with World War II combat experience in the Italian and Pacific theaters, Worley was one of the Air Force's youngest and most promising leaders. He had been in operational command of Air Force ground-support and tactical bombing in the two Viet Nams, and was scheduled to leave...