Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...across the country, as he seeks to raise funds and fervor for his Poor People's Campaign in Wash ington, Ralph David Abernathy, 42, hears the same cry. Less than two months after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the new president of the Southern. Christian Leadership Conference is doing his best to dispel doubts about S.C.L.C.'s ability to carry on. "You can kill the dreamer," he repeatedly tells audiences, "but you can't kill the dream...
Those voters who did mark their ballots returned to power Premier Aldo Moro's five-year-old Center-Left coalition with an increased majority of 51 in the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies. The Christian Democrats gained six new seats from extreme right-wing parties, and the Republicans, the smallest partner in the ruling coalition, went from five seats to nine...
Miracle Without Fizz. Onetime Marxist Nenni had struck a courageous and dangerous bargain five years ago when he took his Socialist Party into a Center-Left coalition with Italy's dominant Christian Democrats. Hoping to move the Christian Democrats to do far more for Italy's middle-class and poor citizens, Nenni cut his ties with the powerful Communist Party, merged with the moderate Social Democrats, abandoned his opposition to Italy's participation in NATO, and even took an "understanding" position toward the U.S. role in Viet Nam. In return, the Christian Democrats promised improvements in housing...
...remains the only viable form of government in Italy, and Nenni's Socialists have gone too far in their partnership with Moro to reverse direction now. But the coalition's survival depends largely on a program reformist enough to restore confidence in the Socialists without undermining the Christian Democrats' and Republicans' new-found support from the right. A neat trick, if it can be done...
Infant baptism is under fire. The most recent attack on this traditional Christian practice comes from West Germany, where 350 Evangelical (Lutheran) churchmen have petitioned the Rhineland synod to abandon the rubric requiring infant baptism and let parents decide when their children should undergo the ceremony. To give the demand more weight, 50 pastors in Germany have publicly indicated that they will not baptize their own children...