Word: mission
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Question: Why did the Administration give the name "Operation Intercept" to its drive against drugs from Mexico? Answer: Because somebody else had already thought up Mission: Impossible...
...seconds one night last spring, the blinding flash of a huge meteor lit up the sky over central Mexico. A short time later, a B57 sped to the scene from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Its mission was to collect any debris that might still be adrift after the fireball's searing entry into the earth's atmosphere. For the second time in history, investigators had been alerted quickly enough to seek such dust, which provides invaluable clues to the origin and chemical makeup of meteorites...
Regardless of who was right, the Berets were ordered prosecuted by the Army's General Abrams, who was incensed at being lied to by the Berets. They told the general that Chuyen was only "off on a dangerous mission" at a time when he actually was dead. Abrams apparently was determined to dramatize his insistence that the Special Forces must operate under his command. It will be difficult for Washington to keep the case closed; it demands that ways be found to keep U.S. spies from fighting each other...
...make general: by fighting or by briefing. It is no secret that General Earle Wheeler owed his elevation to Army Chief of Staff partly to the fact that he impressed President Kennedy with his skill as a briefer. Without exception, an officer is briefed before he goes on a mission and debriefed after it. Base commanders take great pride in showing off their briefing rooms and their graphics departments, which turn out an unending stream of impressive audio-visual aids. "When we briefed General Westmoreland," recalls one officer in Viet Nam, "we knew that we must fill at least...
...doesn't seem to get mentioned that "anti-personnel weapons," "delivery hardware," "pacification mission," "nation-building," are phrases that only a people out of touch with language would use with any seriousness...