Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest gadgets in computer technology--including machines that walk, talk, type and speak foreign languages--were on display this weekend at Boston's Hynes Auditorium...
SALT II is seriously threatened by the furor over Soviet combat troops in Cuba. While senators, with next year's elections in mind, bicker over the 2-3000 Soviet combat troops in Cuba, SALT II recedes into the background of American foreign policy until President Carter takes what Congress considers corrective action...
...unfortunate that the opportunism of leaders like Sen. Frank Church (D--Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has forced a linkage between two unrelated issues. The Soviet troops do not constitute a direct threat to the security...
...inane uproar over the troops in Cuba illuminates the confused state of our foreign policy, which lacks the stability and consistency that command worldwide respect. President Carter has shown prudence in his caution over angering the Soviets by refusing to agree to the linkage of the two issues. But his poor national rating has allowed Congress a free hand in determining America's foreign policy...
...history of Catholicism in America, particularly in New England, has not been peaceful. In a land where attacks of nativism have been as frequent as the common cold, Catholicism has frequently been regarded as foreign and its adherents as mindless followers of an alien despot. When the Pope, following the example of the monarchs of Europe, sent over a block of marble to be included in the Washington Monument under construction in the 1840s, an angry mob threw the gift into the Potomac. Closer to home, an equally unpleasant mob burned to the ground the Ursuline Convent and made...