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Word: church (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happen again." That was the cocky mood along the eight blocks of Wall Street last week. A new generation of stockbrokers, analysts and specialists who have only read about the Great Crash confidently continued business as usual. A block from the New York Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, which was packed with prayerful people in October 1929, did normal business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Could the Great Crash of '29 Recur? | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...mounting pressure from SALT supporters at home and abroad, the U.S. Senate seemed to edge closer to approval of the pact last week despite the setback caused by the uproar over the Soviet combat brigade in Cuba. That issue was somewhat defused when Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Frank Church, who had helped trigger the crisis, introduced a mild resolution that he had worked out in advance with the White House. He proposed that before SALT can be approved, "the President shall affirm that. . . Soviet military forces in Cuba are not engaged in a combat role and will not become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: High-Level Lobbying for SALT | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...warned that incitement to revolutionary violence is "criminally irresponsible." But the bishops also lashed out at government corruption and violations of human rights, and declared that in the face of "manifest, longstanding tyranny," the use of force "is not absolutely ruled out." This was a thinly veiled warning that church leaders might one day no longer condemn open rebellion against the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHILIPPINES: Sandigan | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...Agency men resorted to another: "We were just following orders." Though Helms and others declined to implicate the chief executives in the most sensitive operations--for example. John F. Kennedy '40 in the attempts out Fidel Castro's life--the message was clear: the CIA was not, in Frank Church's phrase, "a rogue elephant rampaging out of control." The orders had to come from somewhere...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: The Company He Kept | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...right to pay his way. They swept out the winos, bums, petty thieves and rapists who populate the Common until the Boston cold runs them out in November just to bring him there and hear him say: "...it is part of your task in the world and the Church to reveal the true meaning of life where hatred, neglect or selfishness threaten to take over the world...Faced with problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility: escape in selfishness, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. But today, I propose...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Going Away Sadly | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

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