Word: missions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suit pursuit came to light when the State Department, alarmed by reports that the five-term Congressman had sexually accosted a Peace Corps volunteer during a fact-finding mission to Zaire last March, asked other embassies that have played host to Savage about his activities. Two congressional committees are now investigating the allegations. Considering the outcome of his foreign forays, Savage might want to consider sticking closer to home...
Within days, Bloch became the most intensely hounded public official since Oliver North. Justice Department sources whispered that the Austrian-born Bloch was not only a Communist spy but also an Austrian lackey: as deputy chief of the American mission in Vienna, he had argued against barring Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from the U.S. A Viennese newspaper chimed in that Bloch was also a skirt chaser: police in Vienna interviewed a call girl with whom he had had a "friendship" for several years. In New York City Ronald Lauder, a former U.S. Ambassador to Austria and now a Republican candidate...
...hours that followed, the mission proved short-sighted, even misguided. Israel should not be blamed for the apparent murder of U.S. Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins by terrorists, even though the execution was in retaliation for Obeid's abduction. There is no question about that. The question is, however, how Israel could have failed to realize that their mission would backfire...
Several ministers, including those of China, Australia and Japan, backed a recommendation by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar to dispatch a "reconnaissance mission" to Cambodia immediately to lay the groundwork for an "international control mechanism...
Despite the measures taken last week, Israeli officials continue to defend the original decision to shut down the schools in the West Bank. "The schools were closed not because we wanted them closed, but because they became a hotbed for violent activities," says Barukh Binah, spokesman for the Israeli mission to the U.N. "Each time they were opened, there was violence." For the sake of the students, most Palestinians and Israelis hope that will not be the case this time...