Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throng inside the U.N. was pressing against the blue metallic railings. Out front, members of the press corps were clamoring for the Pope's attention. "Say something to him in Polish," a newsman advised, so TIME Religion Reporter-Researcher John Kohan shouted "Niech zyje!" the traditional wish for long life. Sure enough, the radiant white figure acknowledged the salutation and began to approach him. "Niech zyje!" repeated Kohan, who speaks both Polish and Russian, and, he recalls, "a U.N. security guard came at me thinking I was screaming obscenities." Kohan quickly explained his meaning to the guard...
Even the 50 million American Catholics harbor attitudes that must be deeply disturbing to their Pope. An Associated Press-NBC News poll released on the eve of John Paul's visit showed that most of the Catholics questioned were rejecting parts of what the church and the Pope were preaching. Of those surveyed, 66% would like the church to approve the use of artificial birth control, 63% believe it is all right for a couple to get a divorce even when children are involved, 53% think that priests should be allowed to marry, 50% even tolerate abortion on demand. Those...
...been shattered. He eagerly accepted an invitation to meet with a gathering of the Methodist church's hierarchy and then waited like a schoolboy for their report. When Methodism's judgment was still negative on Kennedy, he was chagrined and sought to ease the blow in the press with a touch of wit. "Careful," he said to reporters, "you may determine the fate of the free world...
...foreign policy problem, but it grew into a major domestic problem." Added a top State Department official: "The President got his priorities in order again. For a while, they were upside down." The trouble started in August, when Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, called a press conference and insisted that the brigade be withdrawn. Otherwise, he said, the Senate would not approve SALT. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance made matters worse by declaring that the U.S. would "not be satisfied with the maintenance of the status quo," a statement that he had worked out with Carter...
...million registered Democrats are expected to turn out to vote in 67 county caucuses for slates of people who will have absolutely nothing to say about the delegates that Florida will eventually send to the 1980 Democratic National Convention. No matter. For weeks the money, the press, the cameras, the organizers have been pouring into Florida to blanket this nonevent, ensuring that at the very least one of the contenders will emerge grinning with "momentum" and the other with an Aesopian disclaimer that the outcome was, after all, meaningless. Probably both, alas, will be right. TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury reports...