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...roll back the effects of the council. This creates a climate of anxiety and distrust." Vatican observers say that in his own mind, John Paul is totally a man of Vatican II. Yet he does insist upon holding to the letter of what the council said, despite liberals who contend that the "spirit" of the council inspires openness to further changes not specifically endorsed by it. Confusion over this point is precisely the reason the Pope called next fall's special synod...
Relations with allies are if anything more vexing for the U.S.S.R. than for the U.S. This is particularly true of Poland. The Polish Premier, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, is determined to keep the country Communist. But he must contend with a deeply religious people for whom the Roman Catholic Church is more a symbol of national identity than is the government, and an outlawed Solidarity leadership has been brilliantly successful at keeping protest alive. So far, Jaruzelski has been performing his high-wire balancing act with great skill, at some cost to Communist orthodoxy: the current trial of members...
...critics. Morison's fingerprint turned up on one of three U.S. satellite pictures that had disappeared from the desk of an NISC colleague and found their way into foreign hands. The photos showed a Soviet aircraft carrier under construction at a Black Sea port. The Government, however, cannot contend that Morison was dealing with an enemy: he turned over the pictures to Jane's Defence Weekly, a British magazine that published them last August. FBI analysis of the ribbon in Morison's office typewriter indicated that he wrote two letters to his British editors at Jane's, where...
...last October on a charge of violating two sections of the Espionage Act. They make it a crime to convey documents or pictures relating to national defense to unauthorized individuals. Morison could be liable to a $40,000 fine and 40 years in prison. The U.S. Government will presumably contend that publication of the pictures may have given the Soviets valuable information about the capabilities of U.S. intelligence satellites...
Critics of the polygraph, which measures pulse rate, blood pressure, breathing patterns and perspiration, contend that it is most apt to be wrong in random screening where the tested person is not asked about a specific act of wrongdoing. Dr. John Beary, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for health affairs and now associate dean at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, further insists that "there is no physiological response unique to lying." The machine, he contends, detects excitement, not lies. Beary adds that Soviet agents are routinely trained to beat the machines and that the Pentagon's increasing...