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...Church. The triptych shows scenes in the life of St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. The Bible has no mention of Anne. The only source is the apocryphal gospel known as the Protoevangelium Jacobi, written in 170-180 A.D. This account has it that Anne and Joachim were devoted, but Anne could not conceive. So Joachim went into the desert to meditate; his wife stayed home to worry. An angel appeared to Anne, Joachim had a vision in the desert, and Joachim and Anne met passionately at the Golden Gate of Jerusalem. Left panel: at top, the marriage...
...produced last week's liveliest discussion. Liberals had hoped that such ordination would be urged for countries where priests are in short supply. The final wording, however, left the matter wholly up to the Pope. Conservatives and liberals alike were disgruntled by confused synod procedures. Said Archbishop Joachim Ndayen of the Central African Republic: "We didn't come thousands of kilometers to dance a farandole...
...Khrushchev learned of the pact when he was summoned to Stalin's dacha after a day of hunting with other members of the Soviet hierarchy. "While the trophies of our hunt were being prepared for the table," recalls Khrushchev, "Stalin told us that [Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von] Ribbentrop had brought with him a draft of a friendship and nonaggression treaty and that we had signed it. Stalin seemed very pleased with himself. 'It's all a game to see who can fool whom,' he said. '[Hitler] thinks he's outsmarted...
...countries fought each other, as they did in both world wars, other nations suffered as a result, and when they were allied, during long periods of history, it was scarcely to the advantage of the rest of Europe. In 1939, for example, Adolf Hitler sent his Foreign Secretary, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to Moscow. As Stalin stood smiling in the background in a library in the Kremlin, Ribbentrop signed a nonaggression pact that facilitated the Russians' invasion of Finland and the annexation of the Baltic states and the Nazis' blitzkrieg against Poland that started World...
...nonsense to talk about halting nuclear-energy production," said Joachim Joseph, a bearded German who works with the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency. Chiding the ecology-minded for naivete, he continued: "Let's remember that if we are to expect governments to spend money to prevent pollution, we must be practical and realistic. Do you think you can get governments interested in constructive action by just holding up a dead seabird?'' The pessimism of the ecologists was tempered by a rosy view of the oceans' potential. Scientist John P. Craven, lately of M.I.T., predicted that there...