Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mediator between Indonesia's Sukarno and The Netherlands during the 1962 West Irian crisis and as a go-between in the Yemen controversy a year later. Most recently-and impressively-he served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States during the delicate 1965 Dominican negotiations...
...General Bruce Palmer, 53, who was appointed last week as commander of Field Force II-a composite outfit of infantry, artillery and armored divisions that recently attempted, in vain, to wipe out the Viet Cong base headquarters near Cambodia. Palmer-who commanded the 23,000-man force in the Dominican Republic-replaces Lieut. General Jonathan Seaman. Having already proved his diplomatic deftness, Palmer will now have to adapt to a type of warfare where firepower counts less than footwork...
...team was winning again. The Mets were losing as usual, but at least they were losing big - 23-18, to the Boston Red Sox. The San Francisco Giants' Juan Marichal, baseball's reigning pitcher, was having such a good time skindiving back home in the Dominican Republic that he decided to ask for $125,000 instead of a mere $100,-000. Baseball's opening day was less than a month away. So what were most sport fans talking about...
Armed with his new-found under standing of faith, Luther began to criticize the theology of indulgences in his sermons. His displeasure noticeably increased during 1517, when the Dominican John Tetzel was preaching throughout much of Germany on behalf of a papal fund-raising campaign to complete St. Peter's Basilica. In exchange for a contribution, Tetzel boasted, he would provide donors with an indulgence that would even apply beyond the grave and free souls from purgatory. "As soon as the coin in the coffer rings," went his jingle, "the soul from purgatory springs." To Luther, this...
...surprisingly, Roman Catholic leaders take a dim view of New Left thinking. Last month the Master General of the Dominican order, Father Ancieto Fernandez, dismissed the leading theologian of the New Left, the Rev. Herbert McCabe, 40, as editor of the zesty Catholic monthly New Blackfriars. What triggered the firing was an editorial by McCabe in the magazine's February issue commenting on the defection of Theologian Charles Davis (TIME, Dec. 30). His charges that the church was "racked by fear" and dominated by authority rather than truth, said McCabe, "seem to be very well founded; the church...