Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sayings: "You cannot make this a garden party! You cannot stop the revolution!" Secret Service men carted him away too. Both were reporters for a Maoist press service in Seattle and had used their press credentials to get onto the south lawn. Unperturbed, Carter spoke steadily on, missing not a line, but Teng looked startled and Rosalynn later admitted that she had been frightened. "I wondered how many more there would be," she murmured. None, it turned out. About 800 other demonstrators, including Maoists, anti-Communist Chinese and anti-Nationalist Taiwanese, were kept behind barricades, well away from the White...
Every audience had felt the devastating effect of the last six years of active guerrilla war. At the Sports Club in the farming area of Centenary where Smith spoke, the man who should have been the chairman, Gert Muller, had died in a rocket attack on his farm on New Year's Day. One woman told Smith that she had lost five relatives within six months. She was supporting him in this election, not out of enthusiasm so much as out of a grim and grudging acceptance of the inevitable...
Dulles had flown to Geneva to control by radio the whole operation from afar like a pipe-smoking puppetmaster. At Geneva, made even more apprehensive by the arrival of a new Soviet ambassador in Tehran, Laurentiev, he spoke out in a news conference on July 25 against the communist menace in Iran. He was meanwhile working desperately behind the scenes to bolster the Shah's confidence. It was Dulles who persuaded the Shah's sister, Ashraf, to return the same day to Iran in a vain attempt to encourage her brother to be more assertive...
...Pope's strategy for countering liberation theology was to take the term and broaden its definition. In his sermon, he spoke of "integral liberation" of the Latin American "seen in his entirety," an apparent indication that in his view, liberation theology has emphasized political and economic needs to the neglect of man's spiritual aspects. He added that the church should show "preferential yet not exclusive love for the poor...
...Pope reaffirmed the Medellin decrees, but spoke of them as "our point of departure." In the decade since, he said, "interpretations have been given that have been at times contradictory, not always correct, not always beneficial for the church." He did not elaborate on this intriguing statement, but sources close to John Paul indicate that he is deeply concerned over Marxist infiltration among Latin American priests. From this first glimpse, it seems that John Paul will seek to fend off further Marxist inroads while blending the church's spiritual resources with firm commitment to social justice and human rights...