Word: sion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...developing countries. The covenant noted that "a reduction of for eign missionaries and money in an evan gelized country may sometimes be necessary to facilitate the national church's growth in self-reliance." Meanwhile, Third World churches, in areas that are still mission territory, now have 200 mis sion boards of their own and are sending 3,400 missionaries to other lands - mostly to neighboring countries...
Some authorities agree that such conditions are terribly dangerous and that as more nuclear fuel is produced, things will become much worse. Others say that, yes, one man could make a fis sion bomb, but that man would have to be a Ted Taylor. On the other hand, Taylor insists this is not so. Just about all that is required is an ability to read and to use tools...
Last August while Russian Geneticist Zhores Medvedev was working in Britain - with his government's permis sion - Soviet authorities canceled his passport and revoked his citizenship, making him an involuntary émigré. Medvedev, who now lives in London, cannot have been surprised. The Soviets had tried to subdue him before, once locking him in an insane asylum for 19 days until worldwide protests embarrassed the government into releasing him. Medvedev's indignant dissidence (expressed in The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko and A Question of Madness) had marked him as a troublesome enemy of partiinost, that...
...campaign issues go, it could not compete with the war, the economy or law-and-order. But it was certainly an emotional question, as Richard Nixon understood. For years the National Football League has forbidden televi sion broadcasts of a team's home games within a 75-mile radius of its city, arguing that TV would cut the take at the stadium. Now Congress is considering legislation that would ban the blackout...
...bottom rung of the spacecraft's ladder, ready to set foot on Martian soil. Simultaneously the two men take the women tous step and in rapid succession make their historic statements - one in Eng lish, the other in Russian. Indeed, bilingualism is symbolic of the entire mis sion. For man's first voyage to Mars is a dramatic undertaking involving both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...