Word: foye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state. Indeed it was their fear of a Roman Catholic President that led a group of Southern Baptist ministers to join in interrogating John F. Kennedy about his religious views in 1960, the last time that religion played a major role in U.S. presidential politics. Even today, says Foy Valentine, executive secretary of the Baptists' Christian Life Commission, "Roman Catholics who want tax money for their parochial schools and so forth will catch it from the Southern Baptists." But Carter says: "I've never tried to use my position as a public official to promote my beliefs...
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Arbitrary Step. Louis Foy of Agence France Presse, president of the 243-member United Nations Correspondents Association, maintained that any correspondent of "an established news organization-whatever its name, structure or affiliation and whether its home country is a member of the U.N. or not-is entitled to be accredited, regardless of political considerations, as long as he maintains a professional status." President-elect Warren Rogers, of the National Press Club in Washington, wrote Thant that he was "astonished at this arbitrary, unjust and admittedly politically motivated step...
...assistance in carrying word of a planned bombing halt to North Viet Nam. The message announced a brief suspension of bombing, but warned that after the pause "it would be necessary to demonstrate more clearly than ever that the U.S. is determined not to accept aggression without reply." Ambassador Foy Kohler carried the message to Deputy Foreign Minister Nikolai Firyubin with a request that the Soviets relay it to the North Vietnamese ambassador. Firyubin's reply: "I am not a postman." MCNAMARA AND BOMBING. Secretary of Defense McNamara quickly became disillusioned with the bombing strategy he had recommended...
...Foy scored the Senators' eighth run; the Red Sox guns had managed but one hit since the third inning-befuddled by a pair of herky-jerky southpaws named Grzenda and Lindblad...