Word: contentions
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...escalating war between church and state is an amazing turn for Latin America, a region with 263 million baptized Roman Catholics.* Catholicism was long content to buttress the governments and military and economic interests that were in power, hoping thereby to encourage social stability and to pre-serve church privileges. A new generation of church leaders, however, inspired by the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and Popes John XXIII and Paul VI, is more active in struggling against injustice and oppression. The new generation also has a compelling cause for its fast-developing political involvement: military takeovers in nation...
...their twilight years, some very rich men are content to devote their energies to such sedentary tasks as clipping coupons and collecting Chinese snuff bottles. Not Daniel K. Ludwig. At 79, he is a veteran of seven decades of business; he started at the age of nine by scraping together $25 to buy a sunken boat. Now a restless recluse with a fortune worth perhaps as much as $3 billion, Ludwig continues to expand his shipping-based business colossus into new areas. Besides his National Bulk Carriers, Inc., which with 49 vessels operates one of the world's largest tanker...
About 15 newspapers have either omitted this episode or objected to its content, Lee Salem, managing editor of Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes "Doonesbury," said yesterday...
...Doonesbury" is cut from newspapers "relatively frequently" due to its social and political content, he said...
When asked about the relative propriety of the sexual content in other regular features such as Ann Landers, Zausmer replied that "there is a hell of a difference between this and a serious discussion" of sexual matters...