Word: missions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan (Random House; $24.95). In a riveting portrait, John Paul Vann, a top U.S. adviser in Viet Nam, emerges as a man who embodied the contradictions of his ill-fated mission: a courageous do-gooder with a dark streak of amorality...
While belatedly admitting past horrors, weapons officials refuse to accept responsibility in their single- minded mission to make nuclear bombs at all costs. Charges mount that radioactive wastes are poisoning the air and water and contaminating residents near facilities. And the costs of cleaning up and making aging facilities safe are staggering. See Environment...
From 1980 to 1984, Mission Hill's infant mortality rate was more than twice that of Boston as a whole. The Black infant mortality rate almost four times the city-wide average...
...result of those meetings, a new program geared toward providing information and support for Mission Hill's mothers and pregnant women opened its doors yesterday...
...helped Mission Hill community leaders organize the program and obtain a grant from the Boston Foundation, Tyree said, a process which she said took several years since it was first conceived. Tyree added that she planned to ask Phillips Brooks House, the undergraduate community service organization, for future assistance...