Word: ago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...girl's best friend can be a politician's worst enemy. Last week the French satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné charged that President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, while serving as Finance Minister six years ago, had accepted a 30-carat tray of diamonds worth $240,000 from Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who was deposed as Emperor of the Central African Republic last month. There is no law prohibiting French politicians from accepting such largesse. The Elysée Palace, in fact, while trying to minimize what it called the "nature...
...outside marriage, including homosexuality. At the Chicago meeting with the U.S. church hierarchy, he praised American bishops for their doctrinal unity with the papacy. But their unity was anything but total. Grumbled one bishop: "He was harkening back to an orthodoxy that I thought we had passed by years ago." Said another: "I almost expected the bell to ring, telling us it was time to go to the next class...
...permanent" sign of their calling. As he spoke, about 50 nuns stood silently in protest of his policy on women priests; every one was clad in street clothes. Remarked Moral Theologian Charles Curran of nuns' garb, "Most American women thought that issue had been settled years ago...
Although the U.S. still has far to go to reach parity with Japan, the new mood was based on encouraging statistics. Says Mansfield: "In the first half of 1979, our exports to Japan were up 46% compared with a year ago. Our imports from Japan were up too, but only by 8.8%." Last year the U.S. ran an $11.6 billion deficit in its trade with Japan; in 1979 the figure is expected to drop to about $9 billion, a 25% decrease...
Brooks' comedy depends on individuals, not situations, and in most shows a viewer would be hard put to retell the plot. Ted Baxter's cheapness on The MTM Show is as funny to this generation as Jack Benny's was 30 years ago, and Lou Grant's scowls are as familiar now as Groucho's raised eyebrows were back then. "Character is what fascinates me," says Brooks. "I love populated things. The great thing about literature is that it tells you that you are not alone...