Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though they may not have subscribed to Church's hyperbolic analogy, the U.S. Senators approved his point. Last week the Senate passed, by a vote of 70 to 16, a resolution that advises Presidents to ask the consent of Congress before they ever again commit the U.S. overseas. The measure does not have the force of law, but merely expresses the "sense of the Senate." It nevertheless will stand as a clear warning that the Congress will not meekly accept unilateral presidential initiatives in foreign affairs...
...summer, grape growers there refused to make a similar agreement, and A.W.O.C. once more went on strike. On Sept. 16, which just happened to be Mexican Independence Day, Chavez's group held a tumultuous meeting and voted unanimously to join the walkout. The hall of the Roman Catholic church...
...Paraguay, student unrest boiled up in the wake of Rockefeller's visit, when police used tear gas and truncheons to break up a demonstration at an engineering school. Rallying against police brutality, students at one point last week took over a church in Asuncion, and most of the country's high school and college students trooped out on strike...
...been converted into a landing strip. Except for spasmodic harassment, Nigeria did little to stem the nightly flow of planes. As Biafra's General Odumegwu Ojukwu, 35, continued to hold out and at times take the offensive, Gowon and his aides became convinced that the Red Cross and church relief groups were supplying guns to him as well as proteins.* When Sweden's Count Carl von Rosen last month introduced his six-plane instant Biafran air force and at tacked Nigerian fighters on the ground, Nigeria finally reacted. A Swedish relief DC-7 flying for the Red Cross...
...Cross plane. Right from the beginning we told all those who broke into our airspace that they were doing so at their own risk. Unfortunately, because of the limitations of our air force, we were not in a position to seal off the air completely. It was the Joint Church Aid group that once said: "We don't care what you say. We're not going to obey your instructions to respect territorial airspace." They told us that if we dared shoot down one of their aircraft, world opinion would be against us. But now people see that...