Word: missions
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...another decision, Donahue this week denied a request by the town of Brookline and the Brookline Citizens To Protect the Environment for a preliminary injunction to stop construction at the site in the Mission Hill district of Boston...
Before his weekend departure, Vance received yet another sign that his second mission to Moscow had gone better than his first: during a final, two-hour meeting with Brezhnev, the Soviet leader and Vance agreed in principle that a Carter-Brezhnev summit would be desirable in midsummer-if a SALT agreement can be worked out by then...
...Better to jaw-jaw than war-war." So argued British Foreign Secretary David Owen, quoting the Churchillian maxim at the conclusion of the latest Anglo-American mission to southern Africa. The future of Rhodesia was as uncertain as ever last week as U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance completed his quick visit to Dar es Salaam, Pretoria and Salisbury and headed for Moscow. But Vance and his colleagues took comfort in the fact that the negotiating process was still alive. Moreover, the mission may have helped refine the Anglo-American strategy for trying to solve the Rhodesian mess...
With U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in the middle of his mission to Moscow and with the revived SALT negotiations under way, neither the Americans nor the Russians seemed eager to make too much of the incident. Next day the Soviet government, which does not have diplomatic relations with Seoul, invited the U.S. to send a civil airliner to Murmansk to pick up the Korean plane's passengers and crew...
MARRIED. Leonard Woodcock, 67, chief of the U.S. liaison mission to the People's Republic of China and former president of the United Automobile Workers; and Sharon Tuohy, 35, a State Department nurse on Woodcock's staff; in Peking; he for the second time, she for the first...