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...resembled the proverbial child in a candy store, both buoyed and bewildered by the wealth of its options. For almost a century the nation has enjoyed the paternal guidance of Britain; meanwhile, its improbable combination of huge oil revenues and a population (209,000) smaller than that of Corpus Christi, Texas, has blessed the average citizen with a whopping annual income of $20,000. Soon a spanking new 2,200-room palace will join the gleaming glass towers that grace the once sleepy capital of Bandar Seri Begawan; even in the heart of the jungle, every wooden longhouseis furnished with...
...Oxford, a committee headed by Sir Kenneth Dover, master of Corpus Christi College, has been asked to draw up a program of "positive discrimination" in favor of government-school students by next fall. The committee is expected to recommend changes in entrance exams to improve those students' chances. The Chronicle of Higher Education
...Regime, Old Methods" [Jan. 24], based on an interview with Roberto Guillén, contains false charges against the Nicaraguan government. My government's open-door policy to visits by international human rights organizations, such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Amnesty International and Pax Christi, is sufficient to counter Guillen's baseless allegations...
...invitation to lay Catholics, as well as to priests and nuns, to join the bishops in the kind of anguished soul searching that produced the document. It is that openness, that tentative quality of the pastoral, that appeals to Sister Mary Evelyn Jegen of Chicago, national coordinator of Pax Christi. Says...
...formation in 1980 of the Bernardin committee. Archbishop Roach skillfully chose the membership of the five-man committee to span the spectrum of the bishops' thinking on nuclear arms. The most liberal member of the committee is Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, 52, of Detroit, who heads Pax Christi, a movement with strong pacifist inclinations. A total of 57 bishops belong to the organization. Gumbleton's hawkish opposite on the committee is Bishop John O'Connor, 62, who runs the church's military ministry for Cardinal Cooke. The committee is rounded out by two moderates: Bishop Daniel...