Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shotgun Recommendation. Appointed last summer while the riot-caused ruins of Newark and Detroit still smoldered, the eleven-member* commission had a threefold mission: 1) to record what had actually happened, 2) to find out why it happened, and 3) to suggest a scheme for heading off further troubles. The first two tasks were performed with the help of 90 staff workers in a minimum of time and with a maximum of thoughtfulness and sensitivity. But for the third assignment, the commission, stunned by the gravity and magnitude of the problem, produced shotgun recommendations without regard for cost or national...
...unpleasant fact is that the Viet Cong used the Tet assault to infiltrate into Saigon hundreds and perhaps even thousands of agents who pose as normal Vietnamese going about their jobs. The chief mission of such agents is to try to turn the resentment of the Saigonese against the government and the Americans, charging them with the destruction of the city after the V.C. invasion. Meanwhile, V.C. assassination squads operate in broad daylight. The results of their handiwork turn up-hands bound and bodies mutilated-in the river. The V.C. have been active in Saigon for years...
...difficult lot of South Viet Nam's 300 foreign-born missionaries and church relief workers* has become doubly hard in the past month. Since the beginning of the Communists' Tet offensive, eight have been killed, and a dozen more either kidnaped or wounded; several churches and mission compounds have been destroyed or damaged by gunfire. Last week the Quakers' American Friends Service Committee, which operated a child day-care center and medical rehabilitation clinic in Quang Ngai, prepared to pull out of South Viet Nam. "The intensified military operations throughout the country," announced a committee spokesman...
...Thompson, 43, of New Kensington, Pa., stood atop the bunker, lifted his hands and cried out for mercy. A fusillade from a Communist automatic weapon killed him; his wife died moments later when the North Vietnamese sprayed the inside of the bunker with small-arms fire. On leaving the mission, the Reds kidnaped another American nurse, Miss Betty Olsen, 32, and Henry Blood of Portland, Ore., a member of the Wycliffe Bible Translators...
Harvard came on the ice at full speed, forechecking ferociously and shooting with a mission: to test B.U.'s sophomore goalie, Mark Fennie. With each shot Fennie appeared closer to flunking. Pucks dribbled out of his glove into the crease and once he almost turned a shot from behind his own cage. He accidentally caught a slap shot by Chris Gurry between his legs, and twice benefited from the referees' quick whistles as the puck lay free in the crease...