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...superiors in the Sisters of Mercy have refused Szoka's appeal that they compel her to step down. Unless a compromise can be worked out, the issue will end up at the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes. The congregation's deliberation would take months, if not years, and by then the church's new code of canon law will be in effect. If the congregation goes by the book, it will back Szoka. New canon No. 285:3 "flatly forbids a nun or priest to hold public office in any circumstances...
...people of Western Europe compel the U.S. to play nuclear poker with a stacked deck, we ought to toss in our hand and walk out, taking our rockets, our aircraft, our tanks and our military personnel with...
...Government deficits will prove hugely disruptive once the economy begins to recover. That is because the borrowings needed to cover them would tend to "crowd out" private corporations from the nation's credit markets, forcing interest rates to levels that would either choke off growth altogether or else compel the Federal Reserve to expand the money supply so rapidly as to rekindle inflation...
...early 1970s. The book's conclusions about the unique role of Jewish neuroses in fomenting unrest range from the some-what obvious to the highly suspect. Yet more important is the factual material sprinkled liberally amid the Rorschach blots and data tables: tidbits of information that will compel the curious to investigate further the New Left's strange and unfortunate metamorphosis...
Reagan has been seeking to make a major issue out of his call for a constitutional amendment that would compel a balanced budget, a dubious piece of legislation at best. In his TV speech last week, the President assailed "the hard-core opposition of a minority of Representatives who prefer continued big spending" and who prevented the amendment from winning the required two-thirds vote when it came before the House earlier this month...