Word: council
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate, the Council considers the issue a dead letter. MacCaffrey shrugs when asked if the useless drain on committee time exasperates him. When it comes to faculty committees, MacCaffrey says, "I am used to the high wastage of time." He accepts the Council's decision with democratic resignation: "We live in a world of majority decisions." Perhaps. It all depends on whose majority he is talking about. After all, the Student Assembly referendum last year revealed that about 3400 undergraduates polled wanted the University to establish a study abroad program that would offer academic credit and satisfy language requirements. Only...
...former chairman of the Pakistan Council of Asia Society of New England, ud-Din served as lecturer, research associate and trustee at the American Institute of Pakistan Studies and the Pakistan-American Foundation...
...Carter may be the first U.S. President to have what can fairly be called a Caribbean policy. He expressed his interest in the region early by dispatching his wife Rosalynn, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and then U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young on official visits. In 1977 the National Security Council set up an interagency task force to review the area's problems. Two months ago Vance sent former Under Secretary of State Philip Habib on a ten-day tour of the area to re-examine U.S. policy. Among Habib's still secret recommendations: providing generous aid through multilateral...
...American culture. Toward the end of the journey, John Paul had turned increasingly to internal Roman Catholic Church issues. On these matters, too, his message was uncompromising. The theme was, in the words of one strategically placed Vatican official, "that all the test and trial after the Second Vatican Council is ended. He doesn't care how much opposition he encounters." Nowhere is that opposition likely to be stronger than in America. While most U.S. Roman Catholics last week basked in the afterglow of his visit, the church's liberal wing was ready to end something...
...church's opposition to abortion began with a doctrinal manual, the Didache (circa 100 A.D.), which called all abortion "murder." That view has never much altered through the centuries: the Second Vatican Council reiterated that abortion is "an unspeakable crime." Abortion did not become much of an issue among Catholics, or members of other religions, until the 20th century, when some governments began to legalize it. Modern Popes have opposed abortion for any reason "from the moment of conception," and John Paul links it to such assorted violations of human rights as mercy killing...