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...that case, renewed momentum toward a peaceful settlement would again depend upon Britain and the U.S., whose blueprint for Rhodesia was eclipsed when Smith accepted universal suffrage. A main feature of their plan calls for a London-appointed administrator to govern for a six-month transition period during which a constitutional conference-based on one man, one vote-would create the political structure of an independent Rhodesia. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and British Foreign Secretary David Owen are to meet this week at a NATO conference in Brussels, where they will certainly review their strategy for Rhodesia...
...Protestants feared he might be dominated by the church's hierarchy, which had long fought against liberalized divorce laws, against artificial birth control and for censorship of books and movies. Kennedy defused that issue by confronting a group of Texas ministers and convincing them that secular principles would govern his decisions. Since then, of course, many Catholics have adopted far more permissive views. A report last June, commissioned by the Catholic Theological Society, said that just about any form of sex, including both homosexuality and adultery, could be considered acceptable, so long as it is "self-liberating, other-enriching...
...upshot: the incident contributed to the establishment of a high-level interagency committee to coordinate all Government initiatives that might affect U.S.-Soviet relations. No further attempts were made to recruit Lusis, and he returned to the U.S.S.R. in June. But the running feud still goes on between the State Department and the FBI over whether Soviet exchange students should be fair game for recruitment attempts. Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski have discussed the possibility of new policy guidelines to govern FBI counterespionage operations...
...merger "wouldn't affect recognition in any negative way," Kain is uncertain about the move's implications. There is currently no professional national organization that certifies planners. The AIP, or a new organization, may try to take on this task, assuming that it can conform to federal regulation that govern certification programs...
...Steven Biko affair. "If the government is too scared to undertake a full-scale inquiry to establish the cold truth behind these very disturbing events then they are not fit to govern and direct the destinies of millions of people. Detentions leave us cold, Mr. Kruger...