Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question: How would the world change if SALT II failed or were not ratified on the American side? I have no doubt that the world would lapse back not only into a full-scale arms race between the East and West but also into another cold war...
...three significant experiences. No. 1, we have, to a very great degree, adopted American ideas about the structure of a federal democracy, American ideas of human rights. Second, we have experienced an astonishing degree of American solidarity vis-a-vis a former enemy over whom you won a terrible war. There is a great underlying appreciation in Germany for this lesson in solidarity. Third, the Germans are convinced that their outward security has been maintained by the U.S. more than by anybody else. I think the American nation does feel that the Germans have proved to be as industrious...
...gone, but the Virgin has remained for 323 years "Krolowa Polski"(the Queen of Poland).*Finally the Pope will visit Auschwitz, a symbol of Nazi infamy and to Poles a reminder of the estimated 6 million Poles, 3 million of them Jews, who died during the second World War...
Throughout the Communist period, the shortage of church buildings has been the most nettlesome problem. After the war's destruction, an increase in population and the move of peasants to industrial "new towns," Polish Catholics needed large numbers of new buildings. But the Communist government, which has total control of building permits and supplies, played a maddening cat-and-mouse game of rejection and delay. John Paul's most telling achievement in Cracow was the erection of a modernistic concrete-and-steel church at Nowa Huta (New Foundry), a steel town designed to provide no church...
...stallion like Bold Ruler is more accessible for breeding than the sires of a generation ago. Before the second World War, a few wealthy racing families bred, foaled, raced and retired to stud much of the finest American bloodstock. "Today," says Lucien Laurin, trainer of Secretariat, "it's easier to get better breeding because it's more of an open breeding market." The reason: the proliferation of commercial breeders and the widespread syndication of top stallions. The owners of Spectacular Bid, as well as Seattle Slew, certainly are not members of racing's Establishment...