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...forbid Gulf to maintain investments in colonial areas...
...divine Redeemer wished that His Church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable. But if anyone presumes to contradict this definition of ours, which may God forbid: let him be anathema...
...modern Thomistic philosopher, Georgetown University's Germain Grisez. His hefty book, Abortion: The Myths, the Realities, and the Arguments (Corpus, $12.50; paperback, $6.95), is chiefly valuable as a contemporary exposition of the traditional Roman Catholic stand against all abortions. Grisez concedes only that the law need not forbid abortion in the classic case of saving a mother's life (even the strictest U.S. laws have generally allowed that exception) and possibly in a pregnancy due to rape. Where liberalization is inevitable, he suggests that legislators work to hedge it with restrictive amendments...
...visions of its commercial success, his potential as an "ephemeral public personality," and his chance for a shot at the Johnny Carson Show. But the height of chutzpah is the entry for Aug. 1, 1969: "Last night I dreamt I won the National Book Award for this diary." God forbid...
...said, comparing the oppression of women with the oppression of blacks. "They are suffering from the same myths: a childlike nature, smallerbrains, naturally passive, that they lack objectivity (which a few Harvard Law professors are still saying), and that they lack the ability to govern themselves, God forbid to govern white...