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...force he did confront was New York's Archbishop, John Cardinal O'Connor. Cuomo, his wife and youngest son Christopher were watching O'Connor in a television interview in 1984. Cuomo was disturbed when O'Connor asserted, "I do not see how a Catholic in good conscience could vote for a candidate who explicitly supported abortion." When O'Connor was asked whether he thought Cuomo should be excommunicated for supporting the right to abortion, he hedged his answer. The Governor was determined to reply. His resolve was further strengthened by O'Connor's subsequent attack on Cuomo's Queens Democratic...
However safe they may prove to be, such designs will probably not be ready for wide-scale use before the turn of the century. Meanwhile, politicians, no less than engineers, will have to confront people's nuclear fears. Having argued for so long that nightmares like Chernobyl could virtually never happen, experts must now live with all the fallout from that historic accident...
...personhood face enormous hardship: not only homosexual people but the many single, married and divorced men and women whose circumstances or conditions in life make it difficult if not impossible to experience the full sexual expression of human love. It is in these, as in other ways that we confront our incompleteness or woundedness as persons, that we turn to God and our community for another kind of love that we believe is more than, but never less than fully human...
...quite sure that this letter will further isolate me from the Open University members. I regret this fact, and I applaud those members of the Open University who have also noted the abuses I have discussed. It is nothing more than the discharge of responsibility which prompts me to confront the very organization of which I am a member, in which a number of my associations are, and also in which my affections rest. This letter will undoubtedly lose me some friendships, but even if it lost me all of my friendships, but even if it lost...
Strong Republican challenges also confront incumbent State Treasurer Robert Crane, who will serve as convention chairman, and Secretary of State Michael J. Connolly. Their opponents are Republicans Joyce Hampers and Deborah Cochran respectively...