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Word: missions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Geneva still had to work late every night last week on that very same treaty. Their task: to get the final Russian and English terms of the 76-page document into shape for Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev to sign next Monday in Vienna. Alternating between the drab Soviet mission near the U.N.'s Palais des Nations and the more spacious U.S. quarters overlooking the botanical garden and Lake Geneva, U.S. Envoy Ralph Earle and the Soviets' Victor Karpov found that the final dotting of z's and crossing of fs was unexpectedly difficult. Lamented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: On to the Summit in Vienna | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

Because John Kennedy flew to Vienna 18 years ago to meet with Nikita Khrushchev, that mission is most in mind as Carter prepares for a similar journey. The U.S. was buoyant then, Kennedy young and cocky. But even with our huge margin of terror still intact, J.F.K. was shaken by Khrushchev's seeming indifference to nuclear confrontation. The personal assessment these men made of each other was important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Rocky Range of Summits Past | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...past six months, tall, white-haired Republican Congressman John Anderson of Illinois has spent much of his time careering around his home state in a battered, red Pontiac station wagon. His mission: to discover whether he had enough support to enter the presidential race. Last week his hopeful answer appeared inevitable when his wife Keke bought him a new, dark blue suit. Proudly wearing it, Anderson, 57, the chairman of the House Republican Conference and thus third-ranking member in the leadership, became the seventh G.O.P. candidate.* Said the ten-term Congressman: "I have been in the leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Act of Faith | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...murder, claiming that the victims were "grownup" students in revolt against his regime. "In my country," he declared, "everybody calls me Papa." Unfortunately for Papa, his Ambassador to Paris, General Sylvestre Bangui, resigned and sought asylum in France after confirming that the massacre had indeed taken place. His mission now, said Bangui, would be to lead a "liberation front" against Bokassa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Papa in the Dock | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...only been brought up twice in Cabinet meetings," he notes, adding that a new department would insure that educational programs got their fair share, for example, when budgetary hats are passed around. Abramowitz envisions the Secretary of Education as a "senior educational adviser to universities, helping them secure mission-oriented dollars for research and facilitating the national educational rule-making process...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Where to Put The 'E' In HEW? | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

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