Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Freedom was in jeopardy," said L.B.J., "and a struggling people had been brought almost to their knees by aggression-when William Westmoreland was called to urgent duty. His mission was to deny aggression its conquest. It was a mission simple enough to state. But to execute it, he had to fight the most complex war in American history. Now we are stirred by the hope of peace-a stable peace in which the people in Southeast Asia can live out their lives and develop their institutions as they will...
...government was falsely insisting we had only 12,000 technical advisors in Vietnam. In the book, Green Berets lead patrols, scorn their corrupt Vietnamese allies, torture prisoners as the first step in interrogation, chase the enemy across the border into Laos, and even parachute an exclusively American special mission into North Vietnam--acts all that have denied by Washington...
...Quakers had planned a second voyage with medical supplies last fall, but when Ho Cho Minh protested that such a voyage would be too dangerous, Phoenix headed for South Vietnam on its humanitarian mission. After the incidents with the South Vietnamese government and a layover just off Cambodia (to avoid provoking Cambodian-American relation), Ho sent word to the crew to come to Haiphong during the Tet truce at the end of January...
...training" in which the only conversation permitted was the emotional reaction to their experiences. Mrs. Robert McCarty, wife of a Phoenix thrift-store-chain manager, said that she had thought she "wouldn't want to sit and eat with unshaven, dirty people." But in doing so at a mission for derelicts, she had discovered that "they're not really so different-just worse off." Otis Garnand, an auto-parts dealer, was moved by his night among the vagrants. "I thought there'd be camaraderie on skid row, like in a neighborhood bar," he said...
...devoid of plot and action. The King of Navarre and three lords swear to set up a monastic "little academe" in which for three years they are "to fast, to study, and to see no woman." But a princess and three ladies-in-waiting soon arrive on a diplomatic mission and they all fall in love. The news of the death of the princess' father forces a post-ponement of the four betrothals for "a twelvemonth...