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...Moslems of Algeria, as for their brethren elsewhere in Islam, it was Leilat-echek, or the Night of Doubt, when the faithful traditionally scan the sky for the appearance of the moon that marks the beginning of the holy month, Ramadan. It was also the time Charles de Gaulle had chosen for his latest broadcast report on the Algerian situation, and he sounded as if, for him, the night held no doubts whatever: peace with the Moslems of Algeria would soon be concluded, he insisted, and the terrorist Secret Army Organization would be crushed...
...hope that all, some day, will be one. No one expects that the great obstacles to church unity will be removed by the council. But Vatican officials are confident that the prayerful work of the bishops will lead at least to greater cooperation of Roman Catholicism with "the separated brethren," and thus to a start on the long road to Christianity's ultimate union...
...Roman Catholic Church, pointing toward Pope John's historic Ecumenical Council (probably in 1962) is showing a new friendliness toward Eastern Orthodoxy and toward its "separated brethren," the Protestants. For the first time, the Vatican has sent official observers to an Assembly of the World Council. Within the past year, the Pope has received precedent-breaking visits from the Arch bishop of Canterbury and the Presiding Bishop of the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church. In the U.S., a hew era of mutual confidence between Catholics and Protestants is symbolized by the election of the first Catholic President...
...carried the U.S. Sunday newspaper several compass points off journalism's true course. While the typical metropolitan Sunday paper has grown from 111 to 243 pages in the last 20 years, its news content has shrunk from 11.6% to 6.5%. Unlike its slender-and more single-minded-daily brethren, which are deeply embedded in the work week, the Sunday paper must snare that most elusive of all readers: the American at play. Two-day weekends, new leisure pursuits, and the emergence of television's mesmeric eye all have conspired to pry loose the Sunday paper's once...
...from Iboland. Despite a reputation for being emotional and showy, Jaja Wachuku at 42 stands head and shoulders above most of his African brethren at the U.N., in ability and common sense. Descendant of 20 generations of African chiefs in the Ibo country of Eastern Nigeria, he went to West Africa's public schools, then won a place at Dublin's Trinity College, where a law degree came easily, along with a medal for oratory...