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...page book hit stores across the country last week, and the CIA hit the ceiling. The book reprints some 300 pages of anti-CIA articles that have been published elsewhere, including tips on how to identify undercover agents through public documents. But the book's appendix, 415 yellow pages, is a dossier on more than 700 CIA operatives, most of them in Western Europe, listing their vital statistics, including names, work experience and home addresses. Aptly named Dirty Work, the tome is the latest broadside in ex-CIA officer Philip Agee's campaign to "contribute to the growing opposition...
...decision on abortion was correct, the recent decision allowing cutoff of public funding is simply wrong. The state may consistently pay for an appendectomy while denying funds for cosmetic surgery, because that distinction does not involve any controversial moral views. But the supposed difference between an appendix removal and an abortion does depend on a moral position. The state has no business enforcing a moral judgment on a minority...
...Theological Society of America study on human sexuality is not a rejection of official church teachings about sex or a "sweeping challenge" to hierarchical views on this subject. Quite the contrary, in the committee's own words-it gives "particular attention to magisterial statements regarding sexuality" (including an appendix containing the 1975 Vatican declaration on sexuality), and remains faithful to the basic elements of the Christian Catholic moral tradition. Where new directions are suggested, it seeks to contribute "not to dissent but rather to the development of Church teaching...
...University Health Services, but very few have as much reason to do so as Mary E. Munch '80, who went to UHS in December and was sent home with what they diagnosed as influenza. The real reason for her vomiting and severe nausea, it turned out, was her appendix, which burst while she was flying home to Denver for Christmas break...
...February, Munch returned to UHS with more stomach problems: ulcerated colitis, a complication arising from the burst appendix. She did not enter the infirmary this time either, although it isn't clear how much she really wanted...