Word: fontes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of the recent outbreak of hostilities in Algeria, the Forum had invited Abdel Kader Chanderli, an envoy from the Font de Liberation National, the provisional Algerian government (now in Tunis) to argue the stand of the nationalists. They had also asked the French consulate either to send or to recommend an expert to clarify the colonial position of the Fifth Republic...
Vova Marchenko was three months old when his parents took him to the Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Magnitogorsk (pop. 284,000) to be baptized by immersion, as is the practice of the Russian Orthodox Church. When the Rev. Ivan Scherbatov lifted little Vova from the font, the baby was dead-"the victim of a senseless rite," as Moscow's daily Sovietskaya Rossiya put it. Called before a People's Court, Father Scherbatov denied his guilt, contended that the child was ill and would have died anyway. But medical investigators disputed him, and the priest...