Word: attacking
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...world's 700 million Roman Catholics, Latin America is the church's biggest base. It is also the church's biggest problem area. In many nations, the Roman Catholic Church is the only opposition force to survive state repression, and it is under constant attack. In the decade since CELAM last met, a Vatican expert estimates, at least 1,000 priests and bishops have suffered interrogation, imprisonment, torture or murder. Among those detained has been CELAM'S Brazilian president, Aloisio Cardinal Lorscheider...
DIED. Ernst Wolf Mommsen, 68, West German industrialist and former aide to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt; of a heart attack; in Düsseldorf. A successful 25-year veteran of the Ruhr steel business, Mommsen in 1970 joined then Defense Minister Schmidt as his state secretary, with a salary of 1 DM (54?) a year, and two years later followed Schmidt to the Department of Economics and Finance. Mommsen was appointed in 1973 chairman of the board of Krupp, West Germany's faltering industrial colossus, and oversaw its two most profitable postwar years before retiring...
DIED. Nelson A. Rockefeller, 70, millionaire, art collector and four-term Governor of New York who failed three times to win the Republican nomination for President but finally, in 1974, was appointed to the second spot; of a heart attack; in Manhattan (see NATION...
...there are some obvious avenues of attack. Government should loosen regulation, as President Carter has promised. One method would be to set pollution standards and impose stiff fines for violations, but leave it to industry to devise the least costly methods of cleaning up; this would be more sensible than specifying in great detail what equipment should be installed and how plants should be modified, as regulators often do now. Tax policies could be revised to spur investment. Economists quarrel about whether further cuts in taxes on capital gains and corporate profits, more generous investment tax credits or faster depreciation...
...Government the way Morgan does may be novel, but courts have held that corporations do have rights of due process. One of Morgan's tactics has been used by generations of public interest lawyers: if the law is against you, argue broad questions of fairness and attack the harmful social effects of the law. Says Edward Ennis, an A.C.L.U. board member: "I find Chuck's argument extremely imaginative and original, and I'm pleased to see a civil rights lawyer making...