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...people are trapped in a hopeless situation, is it kind to give them false hopes to live on, or is it cruel? This is the dilemma stumbled into by Jacob, a middle-aged Jew in a World War II Polish ghetto. On an impulse, Jacob claims to own a forbidden radio on which he has heard that the Russian army will soon be near enough to liberate the ghetto. His neighbors, desperate for more news, rally around to cajole, flatter and protect him, forcing him to compound his first fabrication endlessly...
...firing. Cars were banned from the streets, and roadblocks set up to restrict movement by foot. Next day the government-controlled papers announced that 'one anarchist' had been killed-although hundreds of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition had been confiscated. Local hospitals had been forbidden to give out body counts, but an orderly at Menelik whispered to me in Amharic, 'Bizualee' (There are many). The best guess: 80 to 100 dead...
...rather than the protest against the myth's male bias--wins out. The notion that God might be a she instead of a he is amusing to play with. And if the first woman had gone by description alone, she might, like Ravenal's Eve, have assumed that the forbidden fruit was a cranberry and have served up apple pies with innocent impunity. Adam proves to be inept at naming the animals, and the simian creature that he dibs "flounder" has to be fended off with a barbed wire fence. Instead of Satan, SIN features a lithe delinquent called Ssss...
...President Ford's prompting, Congress last year eased the embargo against Turkey by allowing it to buy up to $125 million in military equipment, but grant aid was forbidden. Last week Jimmy Carter tried to ease the embargo still further-but Congress said no. The House International Relations Committee rejected an Administration proposal that Turkey be allowed to buy $50 million worth of F-4 Phantoms on credit. Congress has refused to act on longer military-aid proposals amounting to $1 billion over four years...
Although the end of excommunication restores remarried Catholics to the margins of church life, they are still forbidden to receive Communion. Thus, says O'Donnell, the action is most important as "a gesture of love and reconciliation." The bishops hope that alienated Catholics will resume church activity and look into the possibility of getting church annulments of their original marriages. If they do, they will discover that the grounds for granting annulments have widened greatly in recent years, and that cases are handled locally under streamlined procedures...