Word: creation
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...recognized as an exceedingly tough assignment. Indeed, given the convictions of the South African leadership and the human rights concerns of the Carter Administration, a head-on collision was all but inevitable. Vorster remains firmly committed to apartheid and a policy of "separate development" for blacks, based on the creation of quasi-independent tribal homelands inside South Africa. Jimmy Carter is committed to progress toward majority rule not only in Rhodesia and Namibia (South West Africa) but in South Africa as well. Last year, when he was trying to achieve a Rhodesian settlement, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was prepared...
...political, like Fathers Berrigan and Drinan, or sometimes bureaucratic, like Father Hesburgh of Notre Dame--are, in fact, the bane of Ignatius's existence. (They are the bane of most Catholics' existence, because they usually adopt a lofty air that implies they are somehow privy to the wisdom of Creation and a bunch of other theological secrets the rest of us are, quite literally, dying to be let in one. But Ignatius is especially sensitive to the "brilliant Jesuit" mystique, probably because the Jesuits aren't interested in Math teachers with extraordinary punting ability). "Harvard," I pressed on, bearing...
...trace of the cowed and fearful spirit produced by the process of training; and yet he has the sense of security in enjoying it, as though the finite life were the surest thing of all. And yet, and yet the whole early form he exhibits is a new creation by virtue of the absurd...
...both sides had anticipated, no breakthroughs were made at Geneva. Repeating his statement to a Clinton, Mass., town meeting in March, however, Carter declared that "there must be a resolution of the Palestine problem and a homeland for the Palestinians." Assad agrees with other Arab leaders that the creation of a Palestinian state is required for peace. In Jeddah, meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd-who will visit Washington next week-suggested to newsmen that the Palestine Liberation Organization would be willing to recognize Israel's right to exist in return for a Palestinian state...
...Committee on Women's Studies yesterday submitted a petition to Dean Rosovsky containing over 1100 student signatures supporting the group's proposal to consider the creation of a women's studies concentration...