Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity responded by sending Father Pierre Duprey to Istanbul with a letter for Athenagoras explaining that Paul was going as a pilgrim to pray at Christian shrines, but also expressing the Pope's willingness to meet the Patriarch and establish a friendship...
Quickly swinging into action, students at Patrice Lumumba Friendship University spread the word to other Africans in Leningrad, Kalinin, and as far away as Odessa and Tashkent. The message: We march on the Kremlin. Wearing the traditional red mourning band of Ghana around their heads, the students gathered before the Ghana embassy on a street a mile from Red Square. "No trouble," shouted their leaders as the procession trooped off, but at the end of the street, there was plenty...
...State Dean Acheson is one of the most highly esteemed Americans in Pnompenh. The reason dates back to last year, when Acheson successfully represented Cambodia before the International Court of Justice in The Hague in a territorial dispute with Thailand. Last week the U.S. tried to capitalize on this friendship in an effort to end its acerbic-and somewhat mysterious-little quarrel with Cambodia's vain, unpredictable leader, Prince Norodom Sihanouk...
...less athletic pursuits, like amateur theatricals, at which she was gifted, and small dinner parties where the king could "pour his own coffee" and see a few friends. It was a great relief when, as her adviser, the Abbe de Bernis, related with exquisite courtliness, the King's "friendship took the place of gallantry." But then Pompadour had to be doubly on guard against being driven from favor by more lusty ladies -among them a curvaceous Celt with the improbable name of Louise O'Murphy who "looked like a naughty Rubens." The strain was terrific. "When in private...
Rushing Toward Schism. In public, Pope Paul made unmistakably clear his admiration and friendship for such council progressives as Belgium's Leo Josef Cardinal Suenens, and even gave open praise to Fathers Yves Congar and Karl Rahner, two council theologians whose ideas are intensely disliked by the Curia. But the Pope also seems to have found himself more a prisoner of the Curia than John ever was-and he apparently decided that he cannot afford to alienate its powerful conservatives by acting strongly against them. As an administrator, Pope Paul proved to have a common failing of the intellectual...