Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end several planeloads of evacuees had reached the U.S. mainland. The Christian Church in Los Gates, south of San Francisco, suddenly found itself providing food and shelter for some 150 Vietnamese. In Mount Angel, Ore. (pop. 2,200), townspeople had expected to take care of 40 crippled Vietnamese children. But five yellow school buses disgorged an additional 133 refugees, including some adults. Cots were quickly installed in the Oktoberfest beer hall...
They are the privileged in many ways, but the deprived in others. They have more, but they feel. I suspect, at loose ends. They are troubled by their own youthful sense of injustice, their Christian sense that it is simply not fair, or to use an expression that my father often used...
...deposit box. When Connally grew fearful that the money might not be old enough to have circulated in 1971, said Jacobsen, he gave Jacobsen a fresh $10,000 to replace the first batch. The alleged transfer took place in an automobile in front of the Austin home of George Christian, a friend of both...
...some still unexplained reason, a busload of Palestinian guerrillas drove into the east Beirut sector of Ain Rumanneh. That neighborhood happens to be a stronghold of a fiercely nationalist, right-wing and predominantly Maronite Christian party, the 75,000-member Phalange, whose private 6,000-member militia is the largest in the country. The Phalangists in the area apparently decided that the bus was a provocation, and their militia opened fire, killing 26 aboard the bus and wounding 19. That touched off a battle that raged for five days, embroiling much of Beirut. Before it was over, an estimated...
...street battles were the week's most spectacular event. Cabled TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager from Beirut: "The fighting brought into the open old fears of sectarian feuding in a country whose delicate political structure is a tapestry of extraordinary complexity, based on an almost even division of Christians and Moslems in a population of 3.1 million. An unwritten national covenant gives Christians a slight political edge, as if to compensate for their fears of being absorbed by the Moslem majority around them." Under this arrangement, the President is always a Maronite Christian, the Premier a Sunni Moslem, the speaker...