Word: missions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bush compared the subjugation of the Cambodian peoples to the Nazi holocaust at a gathering of the Women's City Club of Boston. He added the United States must lead a worldwide rescue mission ending the "horrible juggernaut of starvation and disease" afflicting the Cambodians...
...South Africans will be brought to Harvard for a disinterested education. One needs only to look into the other areas of endeavor by Harvard to find the real purpose of the scholarship program. In the September 14 edition of the Harvard Gazette, President Bok refers to Harvard's educational mission in the Third World mentioning the schools of management organized by the Business School in countries such as Marcos's Philippines and the Shah's Iran. (Another is being planned in that wonder of capitalist (under) development, Kenya...
...idea of the school has become clearer, and the idea of its mission becomes larger, more people of wealth have been thinking about what they can do to support it," Allison says, adding that the school has attracted many gifts from people without close Harvard connections...
...hand about one-fourth of the requirement postulated by the Department of Defense for sustained combat in Europe." In addition, he said, the service is short almost 60,000 wheeled vehicles "required to move ammunition, fuel, wounded soldiers, food, weapons and to support just about every other Army mission...
...Kiev and Minsk are thus multipurpose warships: their principal mission seems to be antisubmarine warfare, but they and their aircraft can attack surface ships. Jane's Fighting Ships, the authoritative British guide to the world's navies, notes that possession of a carrier force gives the Soviet Union "an intervention capability in so-called peacetime." Jane's believes that no more carriers of the Kiev class will be built after the first four, but expects a new class of larger Soviet aircraft carriers to begin appearing on the high seas in the early 1980s...