Word: council
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end the government and Kurdish representatives had worked out an agreement in principle. In a formula that is likely to be followed in other Kurdish towns, the local provisional council in Marivan would be permitted to decide local matters. The hated Pasdaran were to be withdrawn, and the regular army would assume control until a local police force could be established...
...indication of Washington's renewed interest in the P.L.O. came early last week, when a debate in the United Nations Security Council on Palestinian rights was abruptly postponed, at the U.S.'s request, until Aug. 23. For one thing, the Administration did not want that debate to be clouded by its current squabble with the Israelis over their opposition to a U.S. plan to replace the 4,000-man armed U.N. Emergency Force in the Sinai with a much smaller number of unarmed truce observers. More important, Washington wanted to buy time for private bargaining over the diplomatic...
...personal motto was Semper idem (always the same) and he lived up to it with matchless rigor. Prior to the liberalizing Second Vatican Council, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani was one of the most feared and powerful princes of the Roman Catholic world. His authority as a ranking doctrinal watchdog came from his influence within the Holy Office. Ottaviani was half blind but, the Vatican saying went, "sees more with one eye than most see with two." Armed with a steely mind and consummate dedication, he became in his own word, a "carabiniere" (policeman) of orthodoxy. Even after the windows...
When the presiding officer ruled him out of order, a wave of applause by the assembled fathers of the council suddenly swept the Basilica. Deeply shocked, Ottaviani boycotted the proceedings for ten days thereafter. When he returned, the fathers rejected his main doctrinal proposal at the first session...
...following year, Ottaviani's own domain came under attack when Germany's Josef Cardinal Frings charged that the Holy Office's secretive methods were "an object of scandal" to the world. Pope Paul VI, just after the council closed, ordered a sweeping liberalization of the Holy Office...