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Lehigh University James C. Fletcher, LL.D., former head of NASA...
...found this inconsistent, but the rationale is that secular law need not follow the dictates of religious teachings. Significantly, the document declares that all sexual relations ought to occur only within heterosexual marriage. This signals a retreat from the so-called New Morality by the denomination that published Joseph Fletcher's influential Situation Ethics in 1966 and four years later came close to embracing such theories officially...
...U.S.S. Hewitt is typical of the new style of U.S. warship. Officially, it is classified as a destroyer, but its 7,000-ton displacement is more than three times that of a World War II Fletcher-class destroyer. One deck below the bridge on this modern ship, inside the dimly lit combat information center, highly trained specialists bend over computer consoles that monitor the sonar and radar and control the guns, torpedoes and antisubmarine weapons. The 5-in. cannons fore and aft are fired by two men sitting at a console rather than by eleven World War II sailors scrambling...
Lecture: An Evening With Dean John P. Roche, dean of Fletcher will speak on the American Role in a World of Transition, sherry, buffet dinner, lecture and discussion, $9.00. Call...
Also on Friday, approximately 250 Tufts students demonstrated outside of a board of trustees meeting at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy to protest the university's holdings in companies operating in South Africa...