Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conditions for such cooperation is an end to the suffocating predominance that the Christian Democratic Party has always exercised. The Christian Democrats [must] change their vision of how to govern the country and renew themselves. The party is made up of varied forces. There are representatives of the privileged class, but there is also a broad range of working people and popular forces. If it is to change policy the D.C. has to lose votes to the left parties. Otherwise it will continue along the same road...
...certain advance by the party, in order to make it clear and irrefutable that there is no way of doing without Communist participation in the leadership of the country. The political situation in Italy for the past 30 years has been characterized by a Christian Democracy that has been like a planet around which the minor parties have rotated like satellites. We would like to arrive at a political situation where there would no longer be a planet and satellites but rather a more equal relationship among all the parties...
Daring Move. The Syrian attacks last week were intended to check the mainly Moslem leftist forces and their radical Palestinian allies, who have been battling Lebanon's mainly Christian rightists. Syrian President Hafez Assad has been seeking a peace that would enable Christian and Moslem Lebanese to continue sharing political power; this would make it unlikely that a radical state would emerge on Syria's western frontier. This led Assad, earlier in the year, to send several thousand Syrian-led Saiqa fedayeen into Lebanon to bolster the Christian minority. Last week's action was a more daring...
Assad sent his forces into Lebanon across two fronts last week. A relatively small group drove into the northeastern corner of Lebanon and encountered little resistance. The Syrians' primary objective in this area was easily accomplished: the lifting of the five-day leftist blockades of the Christian towns of Qubayat and Andqit...
...speaker was that sleek, self-anointed savior from Korea, Sun Myung Moon, 56, and his podium last week was in New York's Yankee Stadium. As the head of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, Reverend Moon, whose country was once a target for Christian missionaries, is now three years into his program for turning the tables on the West and evangelizing it for his own (TIME, Nov. 10). He had forecast an overflow crowd of 200,000, perhaps even an absurd million, for his stadium extravaganza. In preparation, 1,500 of his relentlessly smiling...