Word: mutuality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such an effort would also be in the spirit of the joint Soyuz-Apollo mission of 1975, whose main theme was mutual assistance in space. Besides, which would be more embarrassing: To ask the Russians for help, or to face possible casualties, billion-dollar indemnification suits and unforeseen political consequences if 85 tons of flaming fragments land in some sensitive region of the earth...
Viet Nam is also suffering the effects of a sudden withdrawal of aid by China last June, and is growing steadily more apprehensive as relations with Peking continue to degenerate. Last week, the mutual dislike blossomed into outright violence at the so-called Friendship border gate between the two countries, located 100 miles northeast of Hanoi. Hanoi claimed that two Vietnamese were killed and 25 others wounded, while Peking charged that four Chinese had died and "dozens" were seriously injured...
...then Paul had already begun to translate that principle into action. In January 1964 he journeyed to Jerusalem to meet and embrace Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I,on the Holy City's Mount of Olives. The next year the spiritual leaders of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy withdrew the mutual anathemas that their predecessors had hurled at each other a full millennium before. Later Paul established an international commission of Roman Catholic theologians to discuss differences of creed with Anglican colleagues, and approved a similar commission with Lutherans in the U.S. Both groups achieved a remarkable consensus on such issues...
...varying daily travel, watching for suspicious strangers and carefully checking one's car. A group of 50 heads of small-and medium-size businesses in northern Italy have organized themselves into a modern version of the tontine, a primitive 17th century insurance company. They have put together a mutual-benefit ransom society so that if any member is held hostage, all participants will put up cash to buy his freedom...
...that the "present course" of U.S. foreign policy "is fraught with serious dangers." The article attacked Brzezinski by name, claimed that bilateral Soviet-U.S. negotiations were being "deliberately slowed down" by Washington and warned that U.S. support for human rights in the Soviet Union was "particularly disastrous for mutual confidence." Even as State Department officials were weighing Pravda's words, the Russians displayed a degree of disdain for international opinion unusual even for them, by sentencing Jewish Dissident Vladimir Slepak, 50, to five years' internal exile for "malicious hooliganism." Slepak's offense: he and his wife...