Word: june
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nautical trespassing began on June 27, when a Soviet tugboat and three smaller vessels anchored off the Nordkyn Peninsula in the Barents Sea. The Soviet captains claimed to be seeking shelter from bad weather. The often stormy northern seas were calm at the time. The boats left after a Norwegian gunboat was dispatched to escort them out of the area...
...recall to Moscow last fall. Christina pursued Kauzov with phone calls, telex messages and couriers, and a visit to Moscow late last year. Meanwhile, Sergei filed for divorce from his cellist-wife Natasha, gave her custody of their nine-year-old daughter, and moved in with his mother. In June, Christina told U.S. Oil Magnate Armand Hammer, a longtime family friend, that she was off to Moscow again, this time to marry Kauzov...
...June Peking dispatched two ships from Canton to pick up "victimized Chinese nationals" at Vietnamese ports. The ships, which were never allowed to dock, are being recalled to China?empty. Despite all the invective, both countries have agreed to resume discussions of their differences in Hanoi next week. Foreign observers, however, doubt that the low-level talks will do much to resolve what appear to be the real reasons for the neighborly conflict: Hanoi's anger at Chinese support for Viet Nam's hostile neighbor, Cambodia, and Peking's fear of expanding Soviet influence in Viet...
...most offensive tenet vanished in June in a "revelation" promulgated by Kimball, who is regarded as God's unique "Prophet, Seer and Revelator." Henceforth, headquarters announced, "all worthy males" may enter the priesthood, a lay office normally attained by all young men in the clergyless church. Previously the Mormons had denied the office to "Africans." The change will give blacks celestial benefits. Priests can "seal" their marriages for eternity in the temple. This, in turn, means they can aspire to the highest level in the multitiered Mormon heaven after they die. Thus Phone Repairman Joseph Freeman, 25, who became...
...word come? By one account, 13 Apostles (top leaders) experienced a common revelation at a prayer meeting on June 1. In other renditions it came complete with a visitation from Joseph Smith, the prophet of Palmyra, N. Y., who founded the faith in 1830. In an interview, his first since the announcement, Kimball described it much more matter of factly to TIME Staff Writer Richard Ostling: "I spent a good deal of time in the temple alone, praying for guidance, and there was a gradual and general development of the whole program, in connection with the Apostles...