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Paris has been called la ville mere du scandale-the mother city of scandal. Few scandals seemed better spiced for its Gallic taste than the one that has become known as "the Daniélou affair...
Died. Jean Cardinal Daniélou, 69, eminent French Jesuit theologian; of a heart attack; in Paris. Son of a radical Socialist Cabinet minister, Daniélou entered the Society of Jesus in 1929 and became known as a dynamic liberal Catholic intellectual. As a peritus, or theological adviser, to Vatican Council II in the mid-1960s, he was considered a moderate voice in church affairs; by decade's end he was a cardinal and an outspoken champion of papal authority. He came to deplore the "false concept of liberty" that he said resulted from a misconception...
...There is the young leading woman, an American who has just recovered from a nervous breakdown and is making her first film in over a year (Jacqueline Bisset); the film groupie who starts out as a script girl and ends up running off with the stunt man (Dani). Also present are the director's dedicated, sensible assistant (Nathalie Baye), who muses: "I would give up a guy for a film-but I would never give up a film for a guy"; a zany special effects man (Bernard Menez); a forever wide-eyed makeup girl (Nike Arrighi); an anxious producer...
...press or broadcasters. Just the day before, Paul had made it clear what he meant by dangerous pressures when he castigated the official Italian television network for a "terrible attack" on the church. The offending program was a debate between the Pope's personal friend Jean Cardinal Daniélou and a proletarian Tuscan priest who blasted the church for its failure to identify with the oppressed of the earth...
Smell It. "There is a future here," said Dani over lunch, served in the communal mess hall and consisting of salty consomme, spicy stewed beef with curry rice, bananas and orangeade. "We can develop this entire region both as a bountiful source of winter produce and as a winter resort. Our problem is what to do in summer. The temperatures go up to 120°." He sees his job purely as pioneering and, in the process, establishing ownership of the land, regardless of any criticism from the outside world that Israel is staking its claims prematurely. "If someone says...