Word: reopens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laws, dating back to a Swiss religious civil war of 1847, were Articles 51 and 52 of the Swiss constitution. One banned Jesuits from work in schools or churches; the other forbade them (and other orders) to open any new religious houses or reopen ones closed by the government. Last week in a national referendum the two articles were finally repealed-and only by a slim majority of voters, most of them Catholics, who only recently have edged out Protestants as the country's largest religious group. Before the referendum, anti-Jesuit campaigners marched through Zurich streets calling Jesuits...
...given U.S. journalists access to mainland China, and the New York Times has been a principal beneficiary of the thaw. Six Times-men have been granted temporary visas in the past two years; the paper had reason to believe that it would be the first U.S. daily permitted to reopen a permanent bureau in Peking. Last week, however, it suddenly seemed as if the Times would have to choose between fulfilling that hope and maintaining control over the political advertising it accepts...
March 31: Negotiations reopen, first talks since AIM burned Wood's proposal...
...among them Truong Dinh Dzu, who ran a strong second to Thieu in the 1967 election. Dzu had been jailed shortly thereafter for suggesting what Thieu is doing now: negotiating with the Communists. The next to be amnestied were Saigon's bars and nightclubs, which were allowed to reopen after having been closed since last May by Thieu as an austerity measure. Then, at a rally of 2,000 members of his fledgling Democracy Party in a downtown Saigon theater, Thieu invited his opponents to "organize their own opposition party"-which is in fact almost impossible under a restrictive...
...drive toward a more tightly knit Continent would have been dealt a major blow. But last week six of the nine worked out a plan that they could accept-and the other three eventually may join. As a result, official currency exchanges are scheduled to reopen this week, after an extraordinary shutdown of eleven business days...