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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After waiting over ten years for permission to visit the United States--a decadehangingon the intricacies of U.S.-China relations--His Holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet came to the U.S. this fall, completing a 49-day tour of the country last week with a three-day visit to Harvard...
...often do you change your tractor tires?" Aleksei Kosygin, the Premier, asked Farmer Bergland on his last Kremlin visit. "About every 4,000 hours," he answered. "Engines?" asked the cool-eyed Soviet, a fellow normally associated with missiles and megatons, not farm machinery. "Every 10,000 to 15,000 hours," replied Bergland. The old Russian thought a few seconds and then gave his people a short lecture about the disadvantages of the Soviet policy of replacement by the calendar, not actual need...
Thus spoke Fidel Castro. Stabbing at the air, leaning dramatically against the lectern, the bearded Cuban President addressed the United Nations General Assembly for more than two hours. It was his first visit to the U.S. in 19 years, and Castro marked the occasion by larding his speech with anti-American gibes. He began by insisting that he did not intend "to use unnecessary adjectives to wound a powerful neighbor in his own house." But then he went on to accuse the U.S. of "hostile acts, pressures and threats" against Cuba...
...Vatican official, "that all the test and trial after the Second Vatican Council is ended. He doesn't care how much opposition he encounters." Nowhere is that opposition likely to be stronger than in America. While most U.S. Roman Catholics last week basked in the afterglow of his visit, the church's liberal wing was ready to end something of a moratorium on criticism of the new Pope...
Women's Role. It was during his U.S. visit that John Paul spoke for the first time against the ordination of women as priests. He did not elaborate on his reasons, but pure tradition is one of them. The Catholic Church (like the Eastern Orthodox churches) has never ordained women. Reacting against the decision of some Anglican churches to do so, the Vatican in 1977 issued a decree stating that the policy on women is an act "in fidelity to the example of the Lord." That means in effect that if Jesus had wanted women priests he would have...