Word: agendas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expressed the hope that the 17th Assembly would "replace strident politics with quiet but determined diplomacy." Russia, of course, preferred the strident approach. In a ranting, two-hour tirade, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko lashed at U.S. policy toward Cuba (see THE NATION). Crammed with 92 separate items, the agenda gives the Russians plenty of opportunity to exploit the Assembly as a propaganda forum...
Extraordinary Questions, which will control the admission to the agenda of new problems raised by bishops in council discussion. Chairman of the secretariat is moderate Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, the Vatican Secretary of State and longtime 1933-58) apostolic delegate to the U.S. But also on the secretariat are such moderates and liberals as Chicago's Albert Meyer, Milan's Giovanni Montini, Julius Dopfner of Munich, Leo Jozef Suenens of Malines-Bruxelles...
...Prudential Insurance Co. of America. A robust deep-water sailor (he races a 43-ft. auxiliary sloop), Smith is the first corporate counsel ever to serve as A.B.A. president, as well as the oldest ever chosen; he will be 68 this month. Biggest item on Smith's agenda for 1963: an international conference-to be held probably in India-aimed at the A.B.A.'s goal, "World Peace Through World...
Last week the irksome competition of the teachers' union was the hottest item on the agenda at the annual N.E.A. convention in Denver. Charged Executive Secretary William G. Carr: "Forces of significant scope and power are considering measures which could destroy the association." Carr was alluding to Big Labor money, which now has entered the fray. A half-million dollars from the Auto Workers and other unions went into the organization campaign among the New York teachers, he claimed, arguing that labor is now trying to make up for declining blue-collar membership by taking in white-collar teachers...
...handling the delicate problem of providing invitations to non-Catholic churchmen who would like to at tend the council as observers. His top flight staff of clerics has compiled a long list of unity-related subjects for the council agenda, including proposals on religious liberty, the rights of individual conscience and mixed marriages...