Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took a peak commitment of 19,400 United Nations troops to restore a sullen peace to the strife-torn Congo. By June 30, the last 3,000 members of the U.N. force will be withdrawn, and already chaos is coming back. Leopoldville has been rocked by a succession of antigovernment plastic-bomb explosions since May. In Kwilu Province, the Communist-inspired Jeunesse (youth), led by Pierre Mulele, still hold their own against Congolese troops. Though one of the Congo's provincial presidents recently sent Premier Cyrille Adoula a hippopotamus, the traditional sign of loyalty, it is clear that...
...weeks before, Paz's enemies, led by Juan Lechín, leftist boss of the country's tin miners, had withdrawn from the elections, urging all voters to abstain or cast blank ballots in protest. Two days before the vote, Lechín and Hernan Siles Zuazo, onetime President (1956-60) and a former Paz supporter, went on a hunger strike hoping to marshal public opinion against the President. But on voting day, abstentions and blank votes ran only 20% or so, and the hunger strikers soon started eating again...
Translation Errors. Although most bishops in The Netherlands are considerably more conservative than their priests and laymen, they too have been in dutch with Rome. Shortly before the Vatican Council began in 1962, an Italian edition of their encyclical proposing considerations for the council was withdrawn from circulation because of "errors" in the translation; in fact, the Holy Office objected to the Dutch bishops' defense of the now familiar idea of episcopal collegiality-that is, the bishops' sharing ruling power over the church with the Pope. Rome also informed Bernard Cardinal Alfrink of Utrecht that the principal author...
...convincing mosaic portrait of East European Jewry-gripped by a curious, optimistic fatalism and a too-great intimacy with God. Finally, released from the torture and flung in prison, he moves beyond immobility to action. In the dungeon with him is one worse off than he, a prisoner totally withdrawn and silent. After days of struggle to make contact, Michael brings the man to speak at last, and knows the touch of divine grace that accompanies the assumption of responsibility of each for each...
...Handsome Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 26, grandson of Alfonso XIII, the last King of Spain, who was deposed in 1931. His father, Don Juan, has never formally withdrawn his claim to the throne, but has long been in Franco's bad graces. Juan Carlos, married to Princess Sophie of Greece, is supported by Spain's grandees, higher clergy and bankers, but has little popular following in the country...