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Some Western diplomats still insist that a West Berlin accord will be reached -some day. But the fact is that the Soviets and the West are at present so far apart that no agreement can be hoped for within the foreseeable future unless one side or the other drastically alters its stand. After last week's session ended, TIME'S Bonn Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate managed to obtain a picture of the Western and Soviet positions. The major issues...
...dogma has been divinely revealed: that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra-that is, when carrying out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians in accord with his supreme apostolic authority he explains a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the universal Church through the divine assistance promised him in blessed Peter -operates with that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer wished that His Church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church...
...According to Tonis, the Harvard police were completely surprised when the women left of their own accord. "Apparently the judge's order scared them out, that's what I think," he said...
...would "undermine the security of the Soviet Union." (Nixon says that he will "ask the Congress to provide authority to extend guarantees to American private investment" in Yugoslavia and Rumania.) And in the vital field of limitations on strategic arms, the U.S. acknowledges that "no nation will maintain an accord which it believes jeopardizes its survival." When the legitimate interests of the two superpowers collide, the President suggests, restraint and mutual concession are the only rational ways to accommodate their differences...
Stiff Bargain. By the time last week's accord ended a month of confrontation in Teheran, the Shah had established himself as leader of the world's oil-producing nations and changed the balance of power between oil-producing and consuming countries. Under the stiff provisions of a new, five-year pact, the posted price of Persian Gulf oil-on which royalties and taxes are calculated-will rise by 35? per bbl. The producing companies' taxes will also go up 5%, to 55%. Every year until 1975, the companies will pay an additional 5? per bbl., plus...