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...raised an ear-splitting racket, 2) produced so many droppings that the whole town, said a resident, smelled "like a wet chicken coop," and 3) crowded out indigenous birds like cardinals, robins and martins. Since the starlings were plainly not going to migrate from Radford of their own accord, the townsfolk and various wildlife experts hatched a counterplot...
Warm Welcome. The new ease of travel is a by-product of the recent four-power Berlin agreement (TIME, Sept. 13), which guarantees access between West Berlin and West Germany and allows West Berliners to travel with relative freedom to East Germany and to East Berlin. The accord, however, contained next to nothing for East Germans, and their complaints trickled up to Communist Party Chief Erich Honecker. During a Warsaw Pact summit meeting last September, he proposed that travel restrictions be eased within the Communist bloc. The suggestion was warmly welcomed by Warsaw, which is anxious to avoid a repetition...
...recognition to North Viet Nam-while retaining only consular-level relations with Saigon. Until now, New Delhi had maintained a formal neutrality on the Viet Nam issue because it was chairman of the International Control Commission, which was charged with supervising a ceasefire in Viet Nam under the Geneva accord of 1954. India pointedly refrained from advising Washington of its decision in advance. The U.S., in turn, protested to India that its action could jeopardize its chairmanship of the commission. For the moment, both governments were clearly too angry to be interested in repairing the breach...
...Secondly, a mythology offers man a comprehensive, understandable image of the world around him, roughly in accord with the best scientific knowledge of the time. In symbolic form, it tells him what his universe looks like and where he belongs...
This is only the latest in a series of quiet, significant steps in ecumenical theology. In recent years, while the Anglican Communion has been down grading its Thirty-Nine Articles, many Catholic scholars have been reinterpreting the doctrine of transubstantiation. Last week's accord leaps over all the Reformation rhetoric and states simply that Communion presupposes Christ's "true presence, effectually signified by the bread and wine, which, in this mystery, become his body and blood." But the document does not use the term transubstantiation except in a footnote that carefully affirms Christ's presence...