Word: reuters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news circled the world, most Catholics admitted knowing little about their new leader. London's Sunday Times headlined him as THE UNKNOWN POPE. "We have never heard of him here," said James Reuter, a leading Jesuit in the Philippines. But he added, "At least we are thankful it is not some of the others." In Little Rock, Ark., Bishop Andrew J. McDonald heard the news from a priest and was forced to look up Luciani in a church directory. The rapid decision, quipped the bishop, "just shows that the Holy Spirit is quicker than the speed of light...
...anti-Allende people in Chile. Through the State Department Governmental Affairs Institute, the U.S. maintains the International Visitors Program. This is designed to allow the U.S. government to invite foreigners to be official guests of the U.S. for a month in order to "broaden cultural understanding," according to Jerilyn Reuter, an official in the Governmental Affairs Institute. Reuter says that the U.S. government ties to "select potential or actual leaders of countries to be visitors" in order to acquaint them with the U.S. In September 1973, just after the coup in Chile, the International Visitors Program invited Gustavo Palacios, director...
...Washington bureau, TIME'S Environment Correspondent Samuel Iker, who has been reporting the energy crisis for two years, has become an energy vigilante, turning off his colleagues' lights when they leave the office. Secretary Diana Reuter in our Atlanta bureau has joined a car pool instead of driving her own car to visit her horse at a stable outside town. The story is the same overseas. "Rarely worn sweaters are back in use in the evening," reports Tokyo Bureau Chief Herman Nickel. "And at the office, the knowledge that the landlord turns off the heat...
...aide to Berlin's Governing Mayor Ernst Reuter, Brandt served in the front lines of the cold war. He was married on the eve of the blockade, and his first son was born by candlelight before the Russians caved in and reopened the city's land and water links. During the long struggle for Berlin. Brandt learned that there was no substitute for U.S. power in facing down the Russian bear. "Nowadays bridges are not built, but blown up," he said then. "It will be up to a later time to re-establish honest connections between the Eastern and Western...