Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...children, Negro and white, would attend the same schools. The other would leave Negroes free to attend any school of their choice that had vacant space. Most of the districts, and almost all of those in the Deep South, opted for the second method, thus putting the full burden of integration on the Negro himself...
...country should not be asked, and should not ask of itself, to shoulder the main burden of determining the political realities in any other country, and particularly not in one remote from our shores, from our culture and from the experience of our people. This is not only not our business, but I don't think we can do it successfully...
...rule on clerical celibacy, and council decrees strongly reinforced the traditional stand. But Rome has since discovered that the issue will not go away. Last month a group of Italian priests petitioned the Pope to relieve them from the celibacy obligation, arguing that it was an "intolerable burden" and that the rule had no basis in either Scripture or natural law. A similar petition was recently sent to Rome by 33 Brazilian priests, who claimed that they had the support of "hundreds and hundreds" of their fellow clerics. Theologians have continued to speculate on the problem, and within recent months...
...Requests. Such theoretical arguments for revision are underscored by ample evidence that many priests find celibacy their heaviest burden. Around the world about 60,000 priests have left the ministry, and many of them have married. Rome's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly the Holy Office, has on file at least 10,000 applications from priests asking to be released from their vows. At the fourth session of the council, Latin American bishops privately circulated a survey of 1,000 Brazilian priests, indicating that a majority were unhappy about their unmarried state. Another Latin American survey...
...state summary of the party's development in the South, and concludes with several imaginative proposals for governmental action which, in accordance with Republican dogma, would be at the state level. The suggestions include vocational schools and state minimum wage laws for agricultural workers, a shifting of the tax burden from lower-income groups to the region's new industries, and state civil rights laws attacking job discrimination...