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...election, he declared, is a "contract between the person elected and the electorate." What followed were the terms of Poher's own contract proposal, and they constituted a clear bid to un-Gaullize France. He pledged to renew ties with the Atlantic alliance, and to reduce France's heavy foreign aid load. Domestically, he promised to chip away at De Gaulle's extravagant "prestige items" and to work for decent housing for everyone, job security and protection against illness...
...well has that policy actually worked? It has certainly not helped bring about the "passing" of Chinese Communism that the late John Foster Dulles hoped for. It has probably deterred Chinese expansionist impulses, although to what extent is unknown; the strength of such impulses has never been clear. One possible result of the policy is Peking's intense hostility toward America: the world's most populous nation (750 million people) seems convinced that the world's most powerful is bent on destroying it at the first chance. It cannot be proved, of course, that a different...
...their first child, close to a third had no other children. Nearly half the mothers were not on welfare at the time the survey was made; only one-third had been on public assistance for a year or longer. And as for blatant immorality, the statistical evidence, although not clear-cut, points the other way: three-fourths of those who had more children were made pregnant by the man who fathered their first child or the man they married later, and only 4% of the girls became pregnant by as many as three different...
Last week, though, it became clear that Shannon is on the other side of the argument. A confidential letter he had written to the Pope dissenting from the encyclical became public, and he was reported to have submitted his resignation. The reason for his resignation, according to Religion Editor Willmar Thorkelson of the Minneapolis Star, who broke the story, was Shannon's inability to accept the prohibition of contraception as stated in Humanae Vitae...
...summer. If and when the Pope accepts Shannon's resignation as Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and as pastor of St. Helena's Church in Minneapolis, he will remain a bishop-but without portfolio. As for the birth control controversy, his challenge to the encyclical makes it clear that the issue is not dead. Indeed, one Vatican rumor has it that Pope Paul is preparing yet another encyclical on the subject...