Word: australian
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...special interest to American Catholics is jurisdiction over annulments. Under a special papal dispensation granted in 1970, U.S. and Australian Catholics have normally been able to get an annulment after an ecclesiastical trial within their own diocese. If the court decrees that the marriage was never validly contracted, the individuals are free to marry again. In both the U.S. and Australia the bishops' conference has the right to waive a second trial of the marriage's validity, which is required for Catholics elsewhere in the world. Nor does Rome review American cases as it might those from other...
...struggled last week to keep one of their spy satellites from plunging prematurely and dangerously back to earth. The high drama was reminiscent of NASA's unsuccessful attempt to control the fall of Skylab four years ago, when fragments of the unmanned U.S. space station harmlessly hit the Australian outback. But the problem with the Soviet satellite had a particularly frightening element. Aboard the faltering Red star was some lethal cargo: a miniature nuclear power plant that could spray deadly radioactive material over a wide swath of the earth...
...Morant) both emigrated to Texas to make western romances (Barbarosa and Tender Mercies). George Miller, daredevil director of the Mad Max movies, is now helming an episode of Steven Spielberg's The Twilight Zone. This is the big leagues, with a more restrictive set of rules. The successful Australian director could end up making lots of money and losing his distinct national voice...
Peter Weir, the first Australian director to make an international name for himself, has chosen to steer a course that is at once more cautious and more daring. He has taken MGM/UA's largesse to mount a more elaborate version of the theme that solders his five earlier films: the collision between British culture and anarchic nature, a conflict that virtually defines the Australian experience. The scene is Indonesia in 1965, as the Sukarno government stumbles toward a coup that will eventually end the strongman's reign. In the streets, Communist marchers sing revolutionary songs with Whiffenpoof harmonies...
...pleased that TIME gave attention to my recent Foreign Policy article on American-Australian relations [Dec. 13]. However, TIME'S insinuation that I draw upon whispers and rumors (and only left-wing ones at that) rather than normal scholarly sources is unfair. The question of U.S. improprieties in Australian politics was raised not by me but by former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and by highly placed Labor Party officials. The case substantiating CIA involvement in the downfall of the Whitlam government can be found in books, police reports, TV documentaries and hundreds of newspapers ranging across the political spectrum...