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Leape said Dr. Robert Beran, associate director of the Division of Educational Measurement and Research, told her that the AAMC is going to rescore the tests but she "couldn't get him to tell me in plain English" how it is going...
Leape said that she could not find out from Beran "why this test was not equivalent to others...
Died. Josef Cardinal Beran, 80, exiled archbishop of Prague, whose life symbolized the Catholic church's struggles in Eastern Europe; of lung cancer; in Rome. Beran was appointed arch bishop of Prague in 1946 and ran head on into the Communists during their 1948 takeover of Czechoslovakia. For publicly protesting the infringement of religious freedom, he was shorn of power, imprisoned for 14 years, and eventually sent into exile. His death occurred during negotiations that might have led to his return to the country he loved...
Sensing the country's mood, the Roman Catholic Church demanded wider religious freedom. In a letter to Dubcek, Bishop Frantisek Tomasek of Prague called for the return to Czechoslovakia of Primate Josef Cardinal Beran, 79. Cardinal Beran, whom the Communists kept under house arrest for 14 years, agreed to leave the country in 1965 in exchange for party concessions to the church; he is now living in the Vatican. Without fully suppressing it, the party has harassed the church for 19 years, even appoints the priests for some dioceses. Bishop Tomasek's letter also asked Dubcek to begin...
...authority. This month he granted extensive new powers to six of his auxiliary bishops, putting each in charge of areas within the New York archdiocese. Other prominent cardinals who are 75 or older are France's Achilles Lienart, Germany's Josef Frings, Czechoslovakia's Josef Beran, Argentina's Antonio Caggiano and Italy's Ernesto Ruffini...