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...spokesman for Hunthausen put it last week, "the archbishop had one notion of what imprimatur meant and the Holy See understood something else." At the order of Rome's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the imprimatur has been lifted. The move had symbolic import, but no actual censorship effect since church officials did not impose a ban on the work's distribution by the Paulist Press, its Catholic publisher...
...country is undergoing difficult economic times. A severe drought, now in its third year, has crippled agriculture land caused widespread hunger in the region. Formerly one of the continent's exporters of food, Zimbabwe has used up all its stockpiles and this year will be forced to import 700,000 tons of corn. The shortages are aggravated by the presence of some 150,000 refugees from neighboring Mozambique who have crossed into Zimbabwe in search of food. To alleviate the country's economic woes, Mugabe's government has imposed strict new austerity measures. In an effort...
...have benefited only the developer of a proposed housing tract, and to the conviction of a county commissioner for accepting a bribe in the form of services from prostitutes. News-Press editors provide crisp color and clear maps and charts and give play to national and foreign stories of import, whether or not they are of obvious interest to readers...
...President's approval. Clark then told me he would immediately "Datafax" the paper to Camp David, where the President was resting. That evening Clark phoned and reported that the President had seen the draft instructions but had not approved them, judging that the issues were of such import that there should be a formal NSC meeting two days later...
...beverages generally mimic all the trappings of premium beer, including the price tag of $3 or more per sixpack. Moussy, a nonalcoholic Swiss-made product, is bottled like a prestige import beer, complete with foil wrapper. White Rock Products, which distributes Moussy (pronounced moose-y) in the U.S., expects to sell 650,000 cases this year. The company is now running a special advertising campaign in the Midwest aimed at churchgoers who have given up alcohol for Lent...