Word: pentagram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting for a charity drive? Hardly. The hour is midnight. On the front door of the house is an orange emblem showing black pitchforks. Downstairs, the party is gathered solemnly before a black -draped altar. Facing them, on the wall, is a chartreuse goat-image superimposed on a purple pentagram. "To night there is one among us elected to the priesthood of Mendes," intones one of the men. "Satan, thou hast seen fit to charge Warlock Shai with thy priesthood on earth ... the deification of the human race." Reciting an ordination rite first in Latin and then in English...
...more pragmatic and complex, less concentrated and crusading application of American power. It officially inaugurated the already much advertised multipolar world of five power centers, with Peking more or less officially proclaimed No. 5 -though in the communiqué China disavowed superpower status. The components of this pentagram are far from equal. How the President's voyage will really affect the relationships within that new field of force-who stands to gain or to lose-is something that neither Nixon, Mao nor Chou can know at this point...