Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether by design or accident, the timing of the snatch heightened the drama. It came on the seventh anniversary of the Congo's independence from Belgium. Rumors raced through Kinshasa that the Algerians were going to present Tshombe to them as an anniversary gift, and Mobutu sent a plane to Algiers to pick him up. But the Algerian regime of Colonel Houari Boumediene could not decide what...
...Another admirer of the spectacle was retired perfume manufacturer (Fabergé) Samuel Rubin, whose New York-based Samuel Rubin Foundation last week gave the Spoleto festival a gift...
Individual responsibility is emphasized. "Each member is the church in the world, endowed by the Spirit with some gift of ministry, and is responsible for the integrity of his witness in his own particular situation. He is entitled to the guidance and support of the Christian community and is subject to its advice and correction. He in turn, in his own competence, helps to guide the church...
...encounters the religions of men and in that encounter becomes conscious of its own human character as a religion." The parallels the Christian finds between other religions and his own, it says, means that he "must approach all religions with openness and respect." And since the church understands the gift of God in Christ is for all men, it is therefore "commissioned to carry the gospel to all men whatever their religion may be and even when they profess none...
...jail sentence from the Berkeley court for trespassing, resisting arrest and refusal to disperse, fought the rap unsuccessfully for two years through higher courts (the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review it), and last week marched off to the pokey after taking a bite of his farewell gift from friends: a chocolate cake with a hacksaw stuck in the middle...