Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lagos last week: "I know that world opinion thinks of me as a monster. But the war is not against the Ibos. It is against the personal ambitions of Ojukwu and his rebel gang." Federal officials accuse Ojukwu of shattering the unity of their nation and scoff at the idea of a plot to exterminate the Ibos. Some 30,000 Ibos who remained in Lagos, they point out, are in considerably better health than those trapped in Iboland. "I am sure that if the Ibos return to the fold and are prepared to be honest and fair," says Gowon, "Nigerians...
...plan is almost certain to be approved by the dail (assembly), largely because the government pays two-thirds of the budgets of both schools. "Once the universities begin to accept the idea as a fait accompli," says Education Minister Brian Lenihan, "they will begin to concentrate on how better to make it work." The fact that the merger could be proposed at all, without creating a religious civil war, is an impressive measure of how far Ireland has come in burying its angry past...
...consideration range widely, from the proper relationship between Christianity and secularism to such purely ecclesiastical issues as Prayer Book reform. There is ample opportunity for bishops to raise new issues. Last week, for example, Archbishop Donald Coggan of York formally proposed that women be admitted to the priesthood-an idea that was shouted down by his peers...
...test one another's will and strength indirectly on distant battlefields. The authors believe this may be more of a strain on the U.S. than on the U.S.S.R. "Americans tend to look on war as a great moral struggle and are apt to be more receptive to the idea of outlawing it than of merely restricting it. If a war does not involve some high and all-encompassing ideal such as freedom, democracy, a war to end war, Americans are reluctant to go into it . . . To the Communist nations, limited war has an altogether different dimension. In fact, inspiring...
...center is chartering round trip flights to Chicago, and round trip buses as well. Miss Erenstein said she has no idea at this time how many people will sign up, although she emphasized that many people will be going to Chicago without contacting this office. The center is distributing leaflets throughout the Boston area...