Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nice vision--certainly a lot nicer than Vietnam's current reality, in which 200 soldiers die each day. With Thieu out of power, maybe it could even come true. Anyway, Ngo Cong Duc explained it patiently. Twice he told the woman from the Christian Science Monitor that the Third Force did not plan on taking power from Thieu, and shook hands with some of the reporters. As the other reporters left, he smiled politely: he verged on seeming embarrassed...
...tightly packaged two-day campaign tour, the 52-year-old congressman spoke before student groups and the press at the Parker House in Boston; attended a $10-a-head fundraising cocktail party given in his behalf; taped interviews with the Christian Science Monitor and other local press groups; was the guest of honor at a dinner reception given by MIT's President Jerome Weisner; and addressed various other political groups, including Citizens for Participation in Political Action...
King's own Southern Christian Leadership Conference has drastically declined in size and importance. CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) has disintegrated. The organization of young activists known as SNCC (Student Non violent Coordinating Committee) has disappeared, as have the Black Panthers...
Died. Paul Cardinal Meouchi, 80, Maronite patriarch of Antioch and the Orient; in Bkerke, Lebanon. Spiritual head of 800,000 Maronite-rite Roman Catholics (65,000 of them in the U.S.), Meouchi played a major role in the delicate politics of Lebanese Christians and Moslems. Named bishop of Tyre in 1934 after serving in California, Indiana and Massachusetts parishes, he worked to prevent sectarian conflict, siding with Moslem opposition to Lebanon's Christian President Camille Chamoun in 1958 civil strife and recently supporting Palestinian territorial claims. Meouchi counted Jordan's King Hussein and Egypt's Anwar Sadat...
...Freedom of speech" is a beautiful ideal, so long as this right is reserved for such groups as the New American Movement and prohibited for others such as the supporters of the Chilean military junta. For instance, Eduardo Frei (the Chilean president before Salvador Allende, and leader of the Christian Democrat Party) was unable to speak before a symposium for the Center for Latin-American Development Studies (CLADS) at Boston University in mid-October because of violent student disruptions. Quoting from The Daily Free Press (October 17, 1974): "The crowd of approximately 75 protesters rushed into the empty auditorium tables...