Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only constituted a brazen Chinese tweak at the Russian bear but heralded the beginning of an extraordinary new era of personalized Chinese diplomacy following more than a decade of isolationism, if not hostile xenophobia. Looking fit in an elegantly tailored tunic, Hua, 57, obviously enjoyed every minute of the affair. As well he might. Aside from a brief visit to North Korea last spring, this was his first trip to a foreign country and -for a Chinese party chairman-the first-ever foreign journey farther afield than Moscow; Mao Tse-tung last visited the Kremlin in 1957 when relations with...
...Italian investigators think there is more to it than that. Following the return of two investigating magistrates who cross-checked their evidence in West Germany, Italian authorities now believe that the accumulated clues indicate the direct participation or at least the active support of German organizations in the Moro affair. The Italians are working on the hypothesis, moreover, that the ten-to twelve-man hit team that abducted Moro may have been composed of outsiders, possibly including Germans, who then passed the politician to a second group, probably Italians. A third group is thought to have issued the regular communiques...
...another extension of The Group. Susan's predictable progress toward personal and professional self-confidence offers few surprises to anyone who has ever met Georgy Girl or Sheila Levine. The only fresh scenes in the film are those that describe Susan's touching, unrequited affair with a married middle-aged rabbi (Eli Wallach) whom she meets while photographing weddings and bar mitzvahs...
Eventually, a growing power struggle between the Cathar Clergue family and a prominent Catholic family blew the whole affair into the tribunals of the Inquisition. Father Pierre and his brother Bernard, the corrupt bailiff of the town, were sentenced to prison, there to die soon after. One Cathar-a not-so-perfect parfait given to shady business dealings and fornication-was burned at the stake. Beatrice de Planissoles, the chatelaine, was released along with her latest swain, another priest-but Beatrice was sentenced to wear the yellow cross of repentant heretics. As for the zealous bishop, he went...
...Colonel B affair underlines the curious history of the Official Secrets Act, which dates from 1896 in Britain and 1939 in Canada. Although, as one former British Attorney General put it, The Act can make it a crime "to report the number of cups of tea consumed per week in a government department," in fact there have been few prosecutions. That is explained partly by intimidation, partly by government restraint and partly by the British and Canadian press's deference to the need for government secrecy...