Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members) as closely knit and conservative as ever. To further both aims, the convention re-elected Dr. John W. Behnken president for another three-year term. To 75-year-old Dr. Behnken, who has headed the synod for the past 24 years, sound and solid doctrinal agreement is the only safe basis of collaboration with any other church body; his election is a guarantee that the Missouri Synod will continue to stay outside the Lutheran World Federation, an international organization of 57 churches in 28 countries...
...Western powers offered far-reaching proposals on German reunification and European security, and put forward reasonable offers to reach an interim agreement on West Berlin. The Soviet Union, however, revealed clearly that its true desire is to absorb West Berlin into East Germany and to keep Germany divided until it can be brought under Soviet influence...
...eyes were serene, the lips often smiling, but the words were blunt. "The glorious achievements of Chinese rule in Tibet," he said, were aimed at nothing less than "the extinction of the Tibetan race." In 1951 he had signed an agreement with Peking, but only to save his own people and only "at the point of bayonet." Even the official Tibetan seal affixed to the agreement was a forgery, and is still in Communist hands...
...intention of "leaving the nation's valiant defenders unaided . . . Wherever I am with my ministers, the people of Tibet will recognize in us the government of Tibet." He would carry his cause to all parts of the world, until Tibet gets back the freedom it enjoyed before the agreement of 1951. Though studiously polite about his host, the Dalai Lama gently hinted that he was getting a bit impatient with Prime Minister Nehru's obsession with getting along with Peking no matter what. "I hope," said he, "that the government of India will give our cause the same...
...Covent Garden production of Medea was the same one in which Callas triumphed in Dallas last year (TIME, Nov. 17); in an exchange agreement, Dallas will see the Royal Opera Company's production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor next year. As curtain time approached in London, $5.60 seats were fetching $98 on the black market, and $30 boxes were going for $280. Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis, realizing that the occasion was a great night for the Greeks (Callas, Designer John Tsarouchis, Stage Director Alexis Minotis, not to mention Euripides), desperately placed ads in the London Times agony...