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...Immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners. Previously, Washington simply called for the earliest possible release of prisoners held by both sides...
...could have no "formal error," and that the church must be the ultimate interpreter. These dicta are now missing. In other departures from Douay, the N.A.B. questions the Bible's strict historical accuracy, avoids old insistences that Matthew (which contains key passages bearing on Catholic dogma) was the earliest Gospel, and confesses uncertainty about who wrote Paul's three "pastoral" letters or Peter's two letters, despite the bylines in the text...
...special sense, be the most aristocratic artist America has yet produced. This quality has nothing to do with a grand manner. It lies in its antithesis: her aloofness and precision, her refusal to make any gesture for the sake of effect. Every work in this show, from the earliest calligraphic wash drawings to the recent ones, like Road Past the View, stands to the art of painting as Shaker barns do to architecture-plain, the forms reduced to their simplest and most mysterious denominators, not an ounce of fat left. She works on a level of strenuous responsibility that other...
Although the proposal came less than three weeks before major Congressional elections, a White House spokesman said that the Administration does not treat Vietnam as a political matter and that Nixon put forward his ideas at the earliest moment when, in his best judgment, he felt he could do so reasonably...
Distance v. Treatment. "In the U.S.," says Soviet Health Minister Boris Petrovsky, "a patient usually goes to see his doctor only in case of great need. In the Soviet Union, we welcome a patient when he comes to his polyclinic with the earliest possible signs of illness." The welcome can be warmer than the treatment. Patients complain that polyclinic doctors are too rushed to spend enough time with them. Doctors complain about the volumes of paperwork required by the state. But both agree that the service is as personal as volume permits...