Word: humanites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French reporter, Jacques Moalic, scaled casualties down to perhaps two or three dead but reported that the heavily residential neighborhood around the Paul Doumer bridge spanning the Red River (the city's limits at that point) had been "devastated." The French Communist daily L'Humanité also said that the Chinese embassy had been "touched by a projectile," whatever that meant. Peking caught the clue, soon put out a dispatch claiming that U.S. planes had "dive-bombed" the embassy and hit the nearby office of the New China News Agency...
...free world also bitterly denounced the events in Peking. The Japanese Reds, reportedly ordered by Mao himself to risk their cherished legality by initiating a campaign of terrorist attacks, responded by purging pro-Peking leaders and tearing down pictures of Mao. The French Communist newspaper l'Humanité said the new wave is "stirring disquiet and stupefaction in our ranks." Asked a Spanish Communist spokesman: "What winds of madness are these, sullying the authentic Chinese revolution...
Once Sargent invited the editor of Paris' Communist daily L'Humanité to Catacombs 65. Two summers ago, he helped Novelist James Baldwin organize a miniature version of Washington's civil rights march. Currently, the American Church has its own theologian-in-residence-Sydney Ahlstrom of Yale Divinity School-who teaches a weekly course to 80 adults of the congregation. Sargent occasionally appears on French television and at ecumenical conferences involving French Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy. He chain-smokes his way through an 18-hour day filled with the normal routine of pastors everywhere-teaching, counseling...
...whose Editor Aleksei Adzhubei visited Pope John in March, made it clear that the encyclical met with favor in the Kremlin. Without waiting for guidance from Moscow, leaders of Communist parties in Italy, Belgium and France hailed the peace-loving tone of Pacem in Terris; Paris' L'Humanité called it a major step toward unity of action for peace, and Poland's Zycie Warszawy heralded it as an encyclical of "peaceful coexistence." These appraisals shrugged off the letter's strong rejection of totalitarianism, and concentrated on its espousal of those causes-such as the liberation...
...Force captains, the reunion with their families was an unqualified blessing. But even as the flyers left for Kansas at week's end, pundits around the world were already debating the deeper significance of their adventure. DETENTE. THE HORIZON CLEARS, cheered headlines in Paris' L'Humanité. "We welcome this action as removing one obstacle to Soviet-American relations," said a British Foreign Office spokesman. The London Daily Telegraph was more skeptical, and more realistic: "We should not forget that it has for many years been the practice of Soviet diplomacy to take up indefensible positions...