Word: pacem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EASTER 1963. Seven thousand pacifists gather at the United Nations Plaza in New York for the annual Faster Peace Walk, Speeches and signs focus on the rest ban treaty and the recent papal encyclical Pacem in Terris. Scattered through the crowd are signs denouncing American military involvement in Vietnam, but the issue is deemed unworthy of protest. Rally organizers demand that the signs be removed...
...strangely ill at ease, uncharacteristically fumbling for words and repeating himself several times. Begin waited very patiently until he got through, then said that when the Catholics choose a new Pope, they say, "Habemus Papam " (We have a Pope). He wanted us to be able to announce, "Habemus pacem " (We have peace). This was the last time I remember him waiting patiently for someone else to finish speaking...