Word: imbroglios
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...scholarly squabble demonstrates a shift in priorities on the part of the Catholic right. In the 1960s it was largely concerned with political issues like attacking Communism and defending the Viet Nam War. Today, conservatives are more worried about church doctrine, liturgy and education. The biblical imbroglio, for instance, focuses on such questions as the literal reality of the Virgin birth, the nature of original sin, the historical accuracy of the Resurrection accounts and even, conservatives claim, the deity of Jesus Christ...
...money-supply bill. But Whitlam took up the challenge: he said that he would treat a Senate deferral as a refusal of supply. He therefore sought the dissolution of Parliament and called for general elections to be held on May 18. Frustrated by his defeat in the Gair imbroglio and the Senate's long-term obstruction of his program, Whitlam had only one means of gaining control in the Senate-to take the risk of a new election...
Many officials see the current imbroglio as a Kissinger tactic to stop Europe from playing any role at all in international affairs, outside of being simply an extension of U.S. foreign policy. Said one French diplomat: "Kissinger is attempting to bring the Nine into an Atlantic system whereby they will be able to take only decisions that are approved in Washington." Kissinger irritated European leaders in his Atlantic Charter speech last April when he stated that the nations of the Continent had only "regional" interests while the U.S. had "global" ones. He now seems to be denying them even...
...week's end the confrontation between Spain's government and its bishops had shifted from Bilbao to Madrid, where the two sides huddled separately seeking solutions to the imbroglio. The entire Cabinet met and reviewed the situation, and Franco himself spent three hours with government officials at his palace in what spokesmen called "an informal exchange of views." Eight miles away, the 19-member executive committee of the Spanish bishops conferred with Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón, Archbishop of Madrid. Among the 19 was Añoveros, who seemed scarcely contrite about having provoked the crisis...
Whatever its validity, the Soviets ignored the warning, just as they have remained all but totally silent on the entire Israel-Austria imbroglio. Moscow is extremely sensitive to the question of Jewish emigration, which-though it has totaled 70,000 Jews in the past two years-goes unpublicized in the Soviet Union. The Soviets are under heavy pressure from the U.S. and other Western countries to allow Jews to leave, while they are under a counterpressure from Arabs to stop the emigration. Jews represent only 1% of the Soviet population of nearly 250 million, but they have earned a disproportionately...