Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Converted last spring from a lowly Army freighter of the sort that toted toothpaste and toilet paper around the South Pacific during World War II, the ship was on her first surveillance mission, gathering intelligence practically on the doorstep of Russia's Pacific fleet headquarters at Vladivostok. The spooking game is a lonely one at best, but as Pueblo's 83-man crew and the rest of the world learned last week, it can also be perilous...
Pearson's Liberals tried in the 1963 campaign to present the voters a Kennedy image of vigor and purposefulness. Lacking the youthfulness of the Kennedy appeal (Pearson was nearly 65), they relied heavily on ridicule and a self-conscious sense of mission. Among Pearson's campaign gambits was the "Sixty Days of Decision," a promise that a Liberal victory would precipitate two-months of resolute, clear-headed and exciting government to set things right after six years of Conservative misrule...
...black Ford carrying the four American military men swung away from the headquarters of the U.S. military mission in Guatemala City, and headed down Avenida de las Americas. Ten blocks from the mission, a dark green sedan carrying three men pulled alongside, and one of them suddenly opened up with a machine gun. "I instinctively hit the dirt," recalled Sgt. Major John R. Forster, who was wounded in the hand. Chief Petty Officer Harry Green caught a bullet in the spine. Sitting in the front seat, Colonel John D. Webber, 47, head of the mission and driver...
Hitler's Wrath. Gehlen was a colonel on the General Staff in Russia in 1942 when the Wehrmacht suddenly ran into unexpected Soviet resistance. Gehlen was given the mission-until then largely ignored by the overconfident Germans-of assessing the capabilities of the Red Army. As chief of intelligence on the Eastern front, he quickly won a reputation for precise forecasting of Russian moves, but his predictions of Soviet victories so angered Hitler that he ordered Gehlen sent to an insane asylum...
...southbound NVA infantryman, customarily headed for an organized North Vietnamese unit but sometimes also for duty as a replacement in decimated Viet Cong ranks, is drilled night and day in the patriotic mission he has been given. "My heart is filled with joy and with an intense love for our kinsmen," one NVA wrote in his diary upon crossing the DMZ into South Viet Nam. The aim of such saturation indoctrination is to try to ensure that NVA recruits are "politically reliable...