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...their own. The Douay Version, their standard since 1609, was written in Douay and Rheims, France, by exiles driven from England and cut off from English libraries. Worse, in 1546, the Council of Trent had required, in effect, that all official translations be made from St. Jerome's 5th century Latin Vulgate text, rather than from manuscripts in the original Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. The King James Version, published by Protestants in 1611, has always overshadowed the Douay among scholars and laymen...
...black Marine sergeant with a reputation for being tough on black militants and a white major narrowly escaped death when a black Marine exploded a grenade under the orderly room of the 5th Communications Battalion at Danang...
Much of the Vatican's prestige as a listening post for diplomats grows out of its own long experience in the diplomatic arts, going back to the 5th century, when the first pontifical emissary was sent to Constantinople to represent the Pope at the Eastern Roman imperial court. Modern diplomacy came with the Renaissance and Reformation. In 1815, Rome's envoys achieved considerable sway in Europe when the Vatican delegate to the Congress of Vienna, Cardinal Consalvi, won a remarkable concession from the Congress: henceforth a papal nuncio (ambassador) would be the doyen of the resident diplomatic corps...
About J. Press (82 Mt. Auburn St.) and Saks 5th Ave. (73 Mt. Auburn St.) I need say nothing. If you intend to shop there, you probably know all about prices and whatnot. In fact, you probably aren't reading this article...
...Fishhook forces sealed off a triangular area of some 50-square miles. With any luck, they may find most of the 7th North Vietnamese Division trapped inside, and perhaps the 5th Viet Cong Division as well. But the main objective is the so-called Central Office for South Viet Nam, the field office from which Hanoi runs its political and military operations in the southern half of South Viet Nam. COSVN has a staff of 2,300 who man an elaborate series of bureaucratic "sections." Yet it is no Pentagon; to confound allied intelligence, its staff moves regularly from bunker...