Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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China's domestic policies have not been spared. Says the Soviet ideological journal Kommunist, China is wracked by "general social disorder, economic chaos and discontent." Tass charged that the Chinese people have suffered "a sharp drop in living standards, while millions have been repressed or exiled." The news agency also accuses Peking of grossly favoring the Han Chinese majority while mistreating its ethnic minorities...
...another. Possibly an African!? A group of Japanese tourists thought it might be one of their countrymen, though there are no Japanese Cardinals at the moment. An Italian TV announcer uncertainly said, "Polacco" (the Pole), and many viewers thought he had said "Poletti," the name of Rome's vicar general...
Political observers will of course be watching the new Pope's every move in relation to the Communist nations. But he is not likely to change the general lines set by Pope Paul. In the long run it may be far more significant that the Pope is a non-Italian, and that he has lived in a relatively impoverished land, than that he comes from the Soviet bloc...
...last non-Italian Pope was a Dutchman, Adrian VI (1522-23). A university chancellor and rector in the Low Countries, he also was Inquisitor General of Spain. For a man charged with burning heretics, he had a delicate sensibility. Shocked by the immorality of Renaissance art, he threatened to whitewash the Sistine Chapel...
After 110 years Jefferson Davis is once again a U.S. citizen, thanks to a bill signed into law by a fellow Southerner, Jimmy Carter. Shorn of citizenship by a punitive Reconstruction Era Congress, Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, died in 1889. In 1975, General Robert E. Lee's citizenship was restored, leaving Davis the sole Confederate leader still ostracized. Carter agreed that enough was enough. Said he: "Our nation needs to clear away the guilts, enmities and recriminations of the past...