Word: war
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Most important, 3,000 new churches have opened in the past nine months. However, Russian Orthodoxy's current 10,000 churches are a far cry from the 18,000 that existed when Stalin died, and just a fraction of the 54,000 before the Bolshevik Revolution. Ever since World War II, when Stalin fostered a , revival of Orthodoxy in order to enlist its support in the war effort, the Kremlin's policy has been not to liquidate the church but to infiltrate and control it. For that reason, the Soviet regime has always preferred docile Russian-led Orthodox and Protestant...
...Then, in a televised address that evening, the President struck what was for him a visionary tone. He invited Gorbachev to "work with me to bring down the last barriers to a new world of freedom. Let us move beyond containment and once and for all end the cold war...
...Europe -- than it had previously contemplated. Said Cheney: "It's clear that the likelihood of all-out conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, is probably lower now than it's been at just about any time since the end of World War...
...instability, the presidency had been vacant for more than 13 months before Moawad got the job. Unlike many other legislators, Moawad, 64, a moderate Maronite Catholic who enjoyed Syria's backing and had served in the Lebanese parliament since 1957, never fled the country to escape the civil war. Conciliatory and a persistent negotiator, he was chosen President in early November by 58 aging Deputies meeting in the mess hall of an abandoned air base...
...photograph appeared in LIFE's Aug. 11, 1941, issue and later became a ubiquitous pinup during World War II: a surrealistically gorgeous woman partially dressed in a shimmering negligee knelt on a bed and smiled enigmatically over her bare left shoulder. Inspired by this stunning vision in black-and-white, countless G.I.s knew exactly what they were fighting for. Mom, apple pie and Rita Hayworth...