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...launch a direct ideological dialogue with church authorities, and 2) to improve the party's image with middle-class Catholics who might provide further gains in future elections. With 227 seats in the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies, the Communists are already formal partners in the six-party accord that supports Premier Giulio Andreotti's minority Christian Democratic government...
Catholic principles do not accord and never will accord with Marxist principles. To argue otherwise means not knowing enough about Christian doctrine, not knowing enough about Marxism, or not knowing either...
...meet future stringent fuel-economy standards. But it did scrape up the money to bring out a new '78 model, the Concord. It is a luxury compact that, with options, sells for as much as $5,200?roughly comparable to the price of the fast-selling subcompacts, Honda's Accord and Volkswagen's Rabbit. Meyers believes AMC must now focus its sales push on the Concord to the maximum. He told TIME Correspondent Ed Reingold a bit hyperbolically: "Concord is a runaway success; we will make 100,000. In the past we got drunk on success and started chasing something...
Many outside observers argue that the conflict now stems from "social" or "economic" factors, religion having lost its prior importance. In fact, the "troubles" remain religious. This is how it is perceived by the people of Ulster, who are deeply religious and who accord a certain preeminence to their beliefs. The conflict is still essentially the contention of two faiths, traditions that are inseparably intwined with racial origins and conflicting historical aspirations. Traditionally, the Catholic is an Irish Gael, a descendant of a people who predated British domination. The Protestant is a descendant of Scottish immigrants, whose succesful colonization...
...lunch at a Belgrade restaurant; the Russians picked up the tab. By the luck of the draw, both delivered their opening remarks on the same day. Confident and assured, Vorontsov boasted that the new Soviet constitution that had just been adopted embodied all the basic principles of the Helsinki accord. He pointedly warned that "cooperation in humanitarian and other fields" is only possible if all countries refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs. That same afternoon, Goldberg delivered his speech, which had been much revised by Administration policy planners. The final approved version did not clatter over...