Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just such a community of faith, regardless of the cries of the extreme left or right; that he oversaw the most thorough reform the Church had seen in 2000 years; that he encouraged an unprecedented spirit of ecumenism and began the move toward unity with other branches of the Christian faith; and that he steadfastly refused to give in to the efforts of rightists such as Archbishop Lefebvre to erode the reforms he began. Perhaps historians will manage to forget all this, and still judge Paul a conservative, a traditionalist unwilling to grasp the changing currents in the world...
...Sinai, site of the Greek orthodox monastery of St. Catherine's. If El Arish were returned to Egyptian sovereignty, the President hinted, it could be used as the site for new peace talks. As for Mount Sinai, Sadat hoped to lay the cornerstone for an ecumenical center containing a Christian church, an Islamic mosque and a Jewish synagogue on the fifth anniversary of the October War this fall...
...years after the Syrians Lebanon to end its civil war, peace seems as elusive as ever. Last fighting once again broke out between Christian militiamen in the eastern of Beirut and Syrian forces, who the area with rockets, mortars and artillery in an effort to dislodge them. The Syrians have tried to stabilize the country maintaining a balance of power?initially, by moving against an insurgent Palestinian and Muslim left, more recently by attacking pro-Israeli Christians who threaten to partition the country. But for Syrian President Hafez Assad, Lebanon threatens to become a Viet Nam: by pulling his forces...
...reported corruption which has plagued the Christian Democrats' rule for the past 30 years, the diverse host of culpable villains (or heroes, depending of course on one's perspective) has unrest and a disturbing wave of terrorist kidnapping, murder, and sabotage. A large and diverse host of culpable villains (or heroes depending of course on one's perspective), has emerged, including such notables as Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer, Pope Paul VI, Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli, prominent Mafia chieftains, and Brigate Rosse revolutionaries. Both the American CIA and Kremlin officials have also been charged...
...claim that the larger markets offer one of everything ever made and two of everything Woolworth ever sold. There are Army uniforms, ladies' spats, metal detectors, Roosevelt buttons, Wallace buttons, Nixon buttons, toilet seats, hubcaps, ski boots, gum ball machines, telephones, dried fruit, perfumes, crutches, jump ropes and Christian Dior shirts...