Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Quirinale Palace to tender his resignation to President Giovanni Leone. The President immediately began the time-honored ritual of inviting officials of all parties to the Quirinale for talks. Among them: Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer, Socialist Party Leader Bettino Craxi, Neo-Fascist M.S.I. Chieftain Giorgio Almirante, and two Christian Democratic veterans, Benigno Zaccagnini and Amintore Fanfani. After all that, Leone asked Andreotti to try to form a new government...
There was more than a reasonable doubt as to whether he would succeed. The Christian Democrats have perceptibly stiffened their resistance to an emergency government. Partly as a result of the strong U.S. admonition against allowing Eurocommunists into power, they are more reluctant than ever to join the Communists in a parliamentary majority coalition. Explained one Western diplomat: "The stand of the Americans has encouraged those Christian Democrats who are opposed to any sort of Communist participation in government and made the others stop and think...
...backing birching was signed by 31,000 of Man's 45,000 voters. Facing self-government claims from all sides, the British would do well to keep in mind that many islanders are descended from fiercely independent Viking marauders. Nearly 200 years ago, a Manx descendant named Fletcher Christian aboard the H.M.S. Bounty led the most famous of all mutinies...
Over 20 centuries, all branches of Christianity barred openly committed homosexuals from the clergy and from lay offices. Virtually all major U.S. churches still do. But the increasingly organized and vocal campaign by homosexuals to be treated just like everyone else poses particular problems for Christian churches. Their creed commands brotherhood and forgiveness, but it also obliges them to defend specific standards of conduct based on the Bible...
...official task force designated to study the problem is proposing that the 2.6 million-member United Presbyterian Church become the first denomination to adopt a policy of toleration. The gist of its findings: there is no reason in principle to deny ordination to a "self-affirming practicing homosexual Christian," even one who is "open to" or involved in "full companionship or partnership with a person of the same sex." The new proposal would make it possible for any local congregation to employ a homosexual if it wished. The church's various presbyteries (regional associations) must approve all clergy hiring...