Word: movements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until well after he had publicly outlined his own ideas on ending the war. Then, early in May, the Viet Cong proposed its ten-point plan in Paris, and less than a week later the President responded with his own eight-point proposal (TIME, May 23). The prospect for movement was growing faster than Nixon had anticipated. The meeting with Thieu, first planned for July, was moved up to June...
...Soviet line on every major point, Berlinguer stressed Italian opposition to any move toward an "excommunication" of the Chinese, reiterated his party's grave disapproval of the Czechoslovak occupation, and called for the independence of every party. Shrugging off Soviet claims of pre-eminence in the Communist movement, Berlinguer declared: "We reject the thesis that a single model of socialist society suitable for all situations can exist." An independent mood was also reflected in the speeches of party leaders from Australia, Austria, Britain, Rumania, Sweden and the illegal Spanish party...
...Paul's carefully planned one-hour visit to the headquarters of the World Council. Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake, general secretary of the World Council, acknowledged the historic import of the meeting in his welcome, telling the Pope that his visit "proclaims to the whole world that the ecumenical movement flows on ever wider, ever deeper toward the unity and renewal of Christ's church." For his own part, Pope Paul seemed to indicate that such unity might have to wait a while. He startled some World Council members by explicitly calling attention to his papal office...
Died. John L. Lewis, 89, leonine titan of the U.S. labor movement (see THE NATION...
...better. He has given Stuttgart not only a superbly knit, brilliant young company but has also played on his dancers' strengths to form a style that is like none other. At any given moment in a typical Cranko ballet, the stage bristles with a seemingly limitless variety of movement. Instead of bloodless, assembly-line precision, the Stuttgart's 38-member corps is more apt to suggest a 38-ring circus, with a panoply of gesture and stance that dazzles the viewer...