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Berlinguer's belated 4,300-word answer-addressed to "Mr. Bishop"-was yes The party boss quoted approvingly from Pope John null encyclical Pacem in Terris, which argued that "encounters and understandings between believers and those who do not believe can be occasions for discovering truth and rendering homage to it." Berlinguer, who attacked Moscow after the invasion of Czechoslovakia and has criticized the Soviet system for its lack of political liberties, also conceded that East Bloc governments "have fallen into discriminations" against Christian believers. Nonetheless, he added, "they are beginning to come out of this situation, even...
...apparent answer is that Sadat wanted to stress how dependent he is on the U.S. and oil-rich Arab states for help since cutting himself off from Moscow. In addition to its Soviet debts, Egypt also owes $8.2 billion elsewhere and annually runs a staggering balance of payments deficit of $1.5 billion. The U.S., Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states helped this year with a $5.4 billion package that allowed Egypt to pay off some short-term obligations and thus save $200 million in service charges. But even with this assistance the Egyptian economy is in terrible shape...
Long before the search for relatively contemporary roots be came a popular pastime, man sought to account for his ultimate origins. In the Middle Ages he looked to the Bible for the answer Turning to the book of Genesis, which says that God created man on the sixth day. James Ussher, the Archbishop of Armaugh, decided in 1650 to determine when that day had occurred By calculating backward through all the biblical "begats" he figured that man was created in 4004 B.C. John Lightfoot, master of St. Catherine's College at the University of Cambridge, shortly thereafter pinpointed the time...
...surge of discoveries in recent years has brought anthropologists closer to the answer. In 1972 Maurice Taieb, 40, of France's National Center for Scientific Research, and Donald Carl Johanson, 34, of Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, found stone tools dating back 2.6 million years in the Afar region of Ethiopia. Two years later their team made an even more dramatic discovery. Not far from their first find, they uncovered the fossilized remnants of a 20-year-old female Australopithecus lying in a layer of sediment 3 million years old. Unlike most other fossils...
...clues to man's past are chiefly fossils, a farrago of frequently undecipherable-and occasionally contradictory-bits of evidence that often raise more questions than they answer. Fossils, the souvenirs of ages gone by, have survived through a still incompletely understood process whereby minerals from the soil infiltrate and gradually replace the very molecules of bone or other hard tissues of an organism, leaving its form and many features preserved...