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...does Sean. Assigned to a black parish (unlike Greeley), he works himself to near collapse. A new archbishop sends the exhausted curate off to Rome to study the history of church marital theology, and Sean finds himself on the famous papal birth control commission, where he stubbornly decides to abstain from voting. The move wins him an interview with Pope Paul VI, whom he lectures about the need for a new theology of sexual morality. Sean could use it himself: he has just spent two weeks in bed with Nora. Neither the interlude nor a brash period of liberalism prevents...
...Stoessel recommending that the decision be reconsidered in light of changes made in an attempt to strengthen the link between a cease-fire and an Argentine withdrawal. Haig concurred. He discussed the changes with British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym and then telephoned instructions to Stoessel to tell Kirkpatrick to abstain from the vote. Finding that he was too late, Haig asked that Kirkpatrick issue her recantation. Later, Haig blamed the confusion on communications problems. It was, said he, like placing a "buy with a distant broker and finding out that the price has changed." Trying to make the point that...
...supporters attacked Peres in the Knesset debate, Begin unabashedly opened negotiations with the two members of the late Moshe Dayan's Telem Party to join his coalition, and offered similar talks with the three Tehiya deputies once the vote was concluded. Three of the five decided to abstain, thus robbing Peres of his victory...
Corporation members have chosen to have the University abstain on several resolutions-some supported by the advisory committee-limiting firms' work with nuclear weapons. The Corporation says it needs more time to consider abandoning past opposition to similar proposals...
Later in the week the ACSR voted 5-2 in favor of a shareholder resolution that would limit the DuPont company's work with nuclear weapons, but it appears likely that the Corporation will also abstain on this proposal...