Word: spares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Between her travels to the order's farflung outposts, Mother Teresa rises at 4:30 a.m., prays, sings the Mass with her sister nuns, joins them for a spare meal of an egg, bread, banana and tea, then goes out into the city to work. Age and authority have not changed her; she is at ease these days with Pope and Prime Minister, but she still cleans convent toilets. She has won an array of international honors, including India's Order of the Lotus and the Vatican's first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize, but sees them...
...problem has intensified ever since 1961, when the Russian Orthodox Church joined the council. There was a tacit agreement to spare the delegates from Moscow any embarrassment, and Soviet sins have gone unnoticed. One Nairobi delegate, Scottish Episcopal Priest Richard Holloway, has called the attitude a "conspiracy of silence...
...soldiers supplied with American money and weapons, suported by American-funded opposition press and strikers. That is only the covert side of American responsibility in Chile--the U.S. also destroyed the Chilean economy by organizing boycotts of its products, shutting off its international credit, and denying its industries essential spare parts. From start to finish the U.S. was the driving force behind the destruction of Chilean democracy, and its attempts to disguise this overwhelming truth makes the Church Committee report a travesty...
...delegation now to vote against Chile was delayed and delayed in Washington. On the last day, Kissinger was finally reached by phone while en route to a speech in Pittsburgh, and instructions authorizing a vote against Chile were rushed to the American delegation with just six minutes to spare. The amnesty resolution, introduced the next day, was deformed by hostile Third World and Communist amendments and withdrawn by the U.S. the following week, without a vote. No credit to U.S. diplomacy, it succeeded only in worsening relations between Moynihan and the State Department...
Whatever the reasons, housing administrators are breathing sighs of relief about the increase in leaves. For the first time in a long time, administrators can give every student that wanted housing space a room. And when they finished there were 12 beds to spare...