Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Truth seems to be most bitter when voiced by a diplomat or a person in the limelight. There are elements of truth in what you call the "bloopers" of Andrew Young [April...
...government met in the wood-paneled state dining room of the Prime Minister's residence. Each leader was accompanied by his foreign affairs and economics ministers. Vance and Blumenthal thus flanked Carter, while experts like National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss were on call nearby. Between the meetings, ministerial-level officials conferred on special problems. Vance, for instance, huddled with British Foreign Secretary David Owen on strategy for a peaceful solution to the racial troubles in Rhodesia...
...even as they disbelieved much of what he said, many viewers felt a new sympathy for Nixon. Oregon's former Governor Tom McCall, one of the first to call for Nixon's resignation, said he now feels that Nixon is "a warm human being. If he'd just come out like this early, it probably wouldn't have been half as bad." Agreed the Norfolk Ledger-Star in an editorial: "It was good that he said it, but it would have sounded better if he had said it sooner. And for free...
...Communists now call it Ho Chi Minh City, but it still looks much like the old Saigon-at least at first glance. A stroll along busy Tu Do Street-renamed Dong Khoi, the Street of the Simultaneous Uprising-remains one of the most fascinating city walks in the world, a gauntlet of boutiques, cafés and attractive women in the traditional ao dai-a long, slit-skirted dress. In sharp contrast with Hanoi, where I found nearly everything in short supply, Saigon's peddlers hawk an abundance of goods, from government-sponsored lottery tickets to ceramic elephants...
Women priests. Married priests. A more tolerant attitude toward birth control and homosexuality. Those were among the 182 proposals issued in Detroit last October by 1,350 Roman Catholic delegates at a conference known as A Call to Action. While liberal Catholics happily mailed out copies of the Detroit proposals, which were based on the work of seven regional hearings and hundreds of discussion groups around the country, traditionalists urged the hierarchy to ignore them. One of the latter called the event "demonic...