Word: clergymen
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...summer residence outside Rome. Though Big Daddy showed up 20 minutes late for the audience, Pontiff and President met for more than an hour and discussed some of the problems facing Catholic missionaries to Uganda. Chief among them was Amin himself, who has restricted the entry of the clergymen into his country. Afterward, while acting as host at a cocktail party for 160 at the Grand Hotel in Rome, Big Daddy scoffed at any suggestion that he might be worrying about his public image. "I am a big man," he explained. "I don't mind if some people...
Detroit's black Mayor Coleman Young raced to the scene and spent the whole night trying to calm the crowds. So did a number of other officials and clergymen. Young also ordered in some 600 police, armed with riot helmets, nightsticks and tear gas, but under strict orders that "the use of fatal force [is] prohibited unless ... life is endangered." Not a shot was fired, and crowds dispersed at dawn...
...Doctors, clergymen and ethicists have never been able to agree on the point at which human life begins. Does it start at conception? When the fetus becomes capable of survival outside the womb? At the moment of birth? Dr. Dominick Purpura of New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine offers a new definition. He says that life starts when brain life begins, and he defines this point as some time between the 28th and 32nd week of pregnancy. Purpura bases his conclusion on 16 years of laboratory studies and more recent examinations of 30 premature and full-term...
Suicide is not unknown among clergymen, but typically the circumstances have been blurred by mental illness. Friends said that Van Dusen and his wife, however, were both of sound mind, and they left behind a note declaring that theirs was a responsible decision that "will become more usual and acceptable as the years pass...
Harold Berman, Story Professor of Law, attended the lunch and said the clergymen were all obviously "devout believers...