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There are two factors in annulment, grounds and procedure. The grounds in the existing canon law code of 1917 are generally technical: bigamy, fraud, insanity, coercion and the like. But over the past two decades church tribunals have expanded psychological incapacity as a basis. The proposed new code recognizes this principle, known as "serious lack of due discretion...
...sinking. At night, the construction equipment is drawn up in a cluster under floodlights, covered-wagon style, for protection against sabotage. Admits Randolph: "We expected some resistance in Galatia, but its intensity at this early stage surprised us. Still, our policy remains to encourage nonunion operation-by persuasion, not coercion. It worked well for us in Wyoming...
...social activism of Jesse Helms and his supporters may play in Peoria, but last week it bombed in New Haven. In a letter to 1,267 incoming freshmen, Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti, 43, denounced a "self-proclaimed Moral Majority" and the New Right generally as "peddlers of coercion" and enemies of the spirit of free inquiry. Wrote Giamatti: "Angry at change, rigid in the application of chauvinistic slogans, absolutistic in morality, they threaten through political pressure or public denunciation whoever dares to disagree." Something of a conservative himself - he favors rigorous, traditional instruction and has often decried government...
...impressive show of personal clout. But Jesse Helms, the senior Senator from North Carolina, has become a dominating force in the Government, partly because of his own fierce skills of coercion and partly because the public's mood has shifted his way. Next to Reagan himself, Helms is the most influential conservative around. While he does not speak for all conservatives-some consider him too radical on certain issues-he has an army of supporters stretched across the country who eagerly send him millions of dollars to save the Republic. His political base is not the Republican Party...
...stories feature closely-knit enclaves of manipulators and their victims. In The Bachelors, five or six nearly middle-aged men and women linked by their fascination with the supernatural, and hounded by clinging mothers and impossible romances, formed friendships that became occultist liaisons--which led to trials for forgery, coercion, and suggestions of murder...