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...liberals thought they had captured their visitor, John Paul quickly indicated that his liberal social views were entwined with a strong streak of conservatism. At an eight-hour session with most of Brazil's 345 bishops at Fortaleza, he told them they had the "right and duty to practice a social pastorate." But he firmly attached three conditions: there must be no sacrifice of spiritual mission, no "participation in political party activity" by the clergy and no Marxist "concentration of all in the hands of the state." Said the Pope: "We are not experts in politics or economics...
...Israeli diplomat in New York City believes that material goals were not always so important to Israelis. "We used to have a simple formula: Israel would not exist without the Jews. This was our motivation and it made our country strong. But in Israel now, people work an eight-hour day and complain like hell. On the other hand, Israelis in the U.S. work for twelve, 14, even 16 hours a day without complaining. It's obvious we've failed somewhere along the line...
...week, attacking government offices with rocks and fire bombs and battling police far into the night. The Seoul government denied student claims that five demonstrators had been killed, but admitted that six, along with 73 policemen, had been injured. Six police cars and 21 sentry boxes were destroyed. The eight-hour rampage, which followed several other clashes the night before, was the most serious outbreak of rioting in South Korea since the student rebellion that overthrew President Syngman Rhee...
...week that it decided to cut off the $1.20 daily food allowance provided for 17,000 Vietnamese refugees in the colony who are unemployed but capable of working. Of the 8,200 refugees who have found work in Hong Kong's factories, many are paid $4.20 for an eight-hour day, or about half of what local employees earn...
...language emotionally, the words won't come out when you need them." For the transit police project whose $18,000 cost was paid by private foundations, Rassias based classroom exercises on subway situations: passengers asking for directions, youths jumping across turnstiles, men molesting women. The daily eight-hour sessions were taught by four Spanish-speaking subway policemen who took a four-day cram course in Rassias' method, plus four Dartmouth students. To prevent distractions, the New Yorkers were isolated most of the time at Brown Hall, but there was still some wide-eyed mixing between students and police...