Word: christians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opus Dei (the Work of God) might also be called Octopus Dei. Most of its lay members are professional men who pledge to strengthen their Christian lives by improving the world around them. They accomplish this in part by appointing fellow members to key government and commercial posts. Opus Dei adherents are known to control almost all of Spain's banking and a large share of its communications media. "They have the frying pan by the handle and the handle as well," runs a Spanish expression, meaning that members have both power and the will...
...even the Poon is safe from such unexpected reversals of reality, because this man Southern has done them one better. It should there-fore be no surprise that Bored's second edition already bears a boldly-lettered come-on announcing. "Terry Southern's best book since The Magic Christian...
...crisis is rooted in Lebanon's volatile ethnic makeup. Roughly half of its 2,700,000 citizens are Christian, half Moslem. The Lebanese, jealous of their position as the eastern Mediterranean's pacemakers in commerce and communications, have kept the ethnic conglomerate intact for 26 years by means of a scrupulously observed gentleman's agreement. It provides that the President of the republic-currently Charles Helou-should always be a Maronite Catholic, the Premier a Sunnite Moslem, and the Speaker of Parliament a Shia Moslem. Parliament is apportioned on a 6-to-5 ratio favoring Christians...
...Chancellor to commemorate his victory. For a while, there had been some doubt whether there would be a Brandt government at all. After last month's national elections, Brandt made a daring grab for power (TIME Cover, Oct. 10). Neither his Social Democrats nor the conservative Christian Democratic Union, partners for nearly three years in a Grand Coalition, had won an outright majority. Outmaneuvering the Christian Democrats, who won 242 seats in the 496-seat Bundestag to the Socialists' 224, Brandt formed an alliance with the tiny Free Democrats, whose 30 seats represented the balance of power...
...years (1961-66) as West Germany's Minister for Economic Cooperation, a post that gave him a solid grounding in international affairs. Two years ago, Scheel won control from the conservative faction of the Free Democrats and engineered a radical shift in party policy-from right of the Christian Democrats to left of the Socialists on a number of issues. In foreign affairs, Scheel and Brandt agree on all fundamental points, including the need to retain West Germany's strong commitment to the West while seeking better relations with the East. Though political infighting provides...