Word: banning
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...parishioners, to be sure, express mild disagreement with positions that John Paul, hewing to church doctrine, has emphasized during his 17 years as Pontiff. The ban on women in the priesthood prompts a brief debate. Joseph Lewis, 64, a retired Westinghouse engineer and chair of the St. Joseph parish council, suggests that the omission of women from the ranks of the Apostles may have been historical rather than theological: "You've got to put yourself back to A.D. 25 to interpret the Jewish religion and the Roman Empire. Could you picture Christ choosing women Apostles? There's a different frame...
KOREA'S KIMS Court lifts traditional ban on marriage between similarly surnamed Seoul mates...
...international protests that marked the first test were also absent this time, with Japan, Russia, the United States and the European Commission merely expressing "regret." In Papeete, the site of fierce rioting after the earlier test, the streets were calm. France restated its intention to sign a nuclear test ban treaty when its tests are completed...
...public is demanding action, and both sides understood that. No one thought it was a perfect bill, but it would have been really hard to vote against it." Still, some Senate conservatives promise to fight to draw the final version closer to the House plan, which would flatly ban cash welfare for unwed teen mothers and end it for women who have more children while on the rolls...
Other "gross miscalculations" included Moscow's panicky fear of Jewish emigration; failure to realize that breaking diplomatic relations with Israel in 1973 would nearly wipe out Soviet influence in the Middle East; refusal to negotiate an early ban on antiballistic missiles and placement of SS-20 intermediate-range missiles in Europe; and a habit of "fixating" on U.S. military research...