Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dogma cannot be altered," Dawson explained, "but the canon law of the Eastern Rite will be recodified." Cross had speculated that this change might make unity more attractive to Eastern churches which accept most Catholic doctrine but reject papal supremacy, than to Protestant churches...
...Jews left in Rumania would, if allowed, join the exodus to Israel over the next months. This flood would easily top the 40,000 that Poland let out after its 1956 thaw, and would leave Russia's 3,000,000 as the only big Jewish community remaining in Eastern Europe. Rumania's action, says one Israeli official, "promises to be bigger than the Spanish expulsion...
...when the vanguard of 1,100 hot-eyed Caribbean revolutionaries set out in a ship from Cuba's eastern coast, bound east to invade Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic, idealistic Fidel Castro was aboard. Cuban gunboats intercepted the rebels and Castro swam three miles to shore, his Tommy gun still on his back. He turned to law, defended a few friends in political trouble, a few farmers evicted from their plots; he honeymooned in New York with his bride Mirtha. fathered a son named Fidel, settled down in Havana. At 2:43 on the morning...
...rebels had money to spare. Collections in the U.S. came to $25,000 a month. Rich Havana sympathizers donated as much as $50,000 each, and the dues from the Havana underground yielded another $25,000 monthly. Contributions and nonredeemable "bond issues" in Venezuela raised $200.000. Companies operating in eastern Cuba began paying "taxes" to the rebels. As a hedge against the future. Sugar Baron Julio Lobo, one of Cuba's richest men, kicked...
Members of the Ivy League and six other Eastern schools have recently registered opposition to the anti-subversion provision of the National Defense Education Act. The regulation in question would require all recipients of federal stipends under the act to disclaim in writing any belief in "subversive movements...