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...both, at the present time, recipients of funds allocated from the KTA grant. We have accepted these funds with the clear understanding that we are in no way obligated by this to voice positions favorable to the Park regime. In fact, we wish to take this occasion to affirm our opposition to the measures taken by the Park government to suppress basic human liberties within South Korea. The widespread control apparatus maintained by the Korean CIA, the torturing, imprisonment, and even execution of Korean citizens because they have spoken out against the regime, the censorship of the Korean press...
Although women shouldn't feel called on to repudiate old-fashioned roles and values in the search for a new identity, these writers suggest that something different and more rewarding is possible, something more willfull and willed. And they affirm that it is necessary to debunk old mores on the level of one-to-one relationships between men and women before you can proceed to the larger issues and ambitions...
Lindsell is also alarmed by gradual changes at the interdenominational Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., probably the best U.S. Evangelical divinity school. Fuller once required faculty members to affirm that the Bible is "free from all error in the whole and in the part," notes Lindsell, who taught there for 17 years. But since 1972 the creed has read simply that the Bible is "the only infallible rule of faith and practice." That leaves Fuller well to the right among seminaries, but nevertheless Lindsell believes disaster looms...
...affirm the right to life. Every woman who dies horribly and unnecessarily on the floor of a tenement has been denied her right to life. Every woman who loses a job, who must leave school, who is ostracized by family and friends for bearing a child she did not choose to have is being denied her right to life with dignity. (This includes the victim of rape as well as the naive sixteen year old and the mother already struggling to support five children...
...Business School needs to affirm its policies by investigating them "in fact" she said, by comparing the current status of Harvard-placed women to that, of men placed by the school...