Word: council
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...Second Vatican Council did much to remove what was for non-Catholics the ominousness of Catholicism. In 1964 Vatican II abolished the absolutist doctrine that "error has no rights," and instead accepted the right of all religions to worship as they will. Church Latin, unintelligible and sinister to many, gave way to the vernacular, and even some times to a rather cloying liturgical sweetness: guitar strumming around the altar, folk songs, the priest rigged out in sunburst vest ments that proclaim HERE COMES THE SON. Gone are the Legion of Decency, which prescribed and proscribed movies, and the censorious Index...
...Middle East politics, and there were more appropriate, Arab candidates at hand. Jackson, nevertheless, left immediately for Beirut, where he briefed Arafat on Sadat's proposal: cessation of P.L.O. hostilities against Israel in the hope of winning Israeli recognition. Arafat immediately called a meeting of the P.L.O. Central Council for a verdict. "I don't need advice from Sadat or anybody else on how to run our affairs," Arafat is reported to have told the council members, recommending a flat rejection. The council turned down the Sadat proposal without bothering to take a vote...
South Africa's 20 million blacks, meanwhile, are more skeptical than grateful. They believe the reforms would still all far short of the full equality they want. Scoffs Bishop Desmond Tutu, secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches: "All this amounts to is shifting furniture around, but leaving the room just the same...
Experts in Latin American history, arts and economics will speak today during the annual meeting of the New England Council on Latin American Studies at the Center for International Affairs, 1737 Cambridge...
...shape up. The Kennedy Library Corporation--a private body headed by Robert F. Kennedy '44--had raisedabout $18 million from 30 million contributors worldwide. The corporation, moreover, had selected a rising young New York architect by the name of I. M. Pei to design the building. The Cambridge City Council and Harvard had both welcomed Pei's plans; officials went happily about their business, waiting for construction to begin. But when the MBTA was forced to find an alternate location for its carbarn, nobody was selling. Almost a dozen neighborhoods rejected the agency's proposals, refusing to change local zoning...