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Though international convention bars broadcasting from international waters, and the targeted countries always voice official protest, nothing much is done to halt the pirates. Reason: the pirate programs are too popular. Fortnight ago, Sweden issued an edict that it would confiscate Radio Nord's transmitting equipment if it came into Swedish waters. But authorities did not revoke the export permit that allows Nord to ferry its tapes out to the ship. Though Danish officials rail in print against Radio Mercur. the government's official newspaper, Aktuelt, sells the pirates its news service...
...absolution, not to support Muñoz' party in the future unless it changed its "anti-Catholic, antiChristian" philosophy, e.g., its opposition to religious instruction in public schools. When Doña Felisa Rincon de Gautier, the mayoress of San Juan, announced that she would defy his edict Father Maisonet told her she must do public penance before she could receive Communion. Realizing that the situation had got clearly out of hand, Archbishop Davis cabled moderation from Chicago. Said Davis: "No sanctions or penalties were ordered, and no one is to be refused the sacraments...
...Puerto Rican bishops had gone too far. Legally there was no doubt that the bishops were within their rights. The Vatican generally seemed to support the bishops, recalling that Pope Pius XII had declared it a sin to vote for the Communists in Italy's 1948 election (an edict that the Italian clergy was never able to enforce). Nevertheless there was room for argument and interpretation...
Yale-in-China suffered a similar fate. A Communist edict closed the school at Changsha, and the trustees of the Yale-in-China Association cast about for a new way to improve East Asian education. In 1953, they decided to support New Asia College, a school set up in Hong Kong by refugee scholars. The Western-style approach to learning has been continued. Its full-time staff of 42 members teaches standard subjects, and in currently planning to create a Faculty of Science. In cooperation with other Hong Kong schools, New Asia College is also attempting to strengthen its Chinese...
...concern was not confined to bigots. The bishops' ban raised anew the legitimate questions of Protestants (and some Catholics) who had heard Catholic Candidate Jack Kennedy pledge repeatedly that his church had no power to influence a Catholic's political decisions. As news of the first edict spread, Midwestern newspapers were peppered with questioning protests. In Denver widely respected Methodist Bishop Glenn R. Phillips announced that "on Nov. 8 I shall not mark my ballot for a Roman Catholic candidate for the presidency," added later that the Puerto Rican bishops' letter had doubly confirmed his stand...