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...everything except starting the Vietnamese war. The manufacturers deserve some knocks for arrogance and a laissez-faire attitude toward safety, but Nader and other recent anti-auto authors weaken their case by overstating it. The traffic tragedy is a compound of many factors: bad roads, loose licensing, lax police, lenient judges, drinking and-not least-auto construction. Says National Safety Council President Howard Pyle: "There is no single offender. They are all interlocked...
...officials in the Boston area who articles redefining the Church's role in a pluralistic society and urged the Church not to impede non-Catholics' freedom of choice. Catholic thinking in general seemed to have changed: in a nation-wide Gallup Poll, 78% of the Catholics questioned had a lenient attitude toward making birth control information available (up from 53% in '63). Active opposition on religious grounds came only from a few "old-guard" Catholics, such as Senator William X. Wall and Representative Smith, who have always been strongly antagonistic to changing...
...Ever since it came to office six months ago, after one of the longest Cabinet crises (65 days) in Belgian history, the coalition of 15 Christian Socialists and twelve Socialists has been unable to agree on how to deal with the doctors. Harmel's Christian Socialists favor a lenient stand toward the physicians, while the Socialists would like to trim the doctors down to size. Remembering that the last doctors' strike lasted 18 days and ended in a retreat by both sides, Harmel decided to quit before the fighting even began, and submitted his resignation to King Baudouin...
...conflict." Translated, this meant that Foote, Cone had recently taken on Ralston Purina and Hills Bros, coffee, both fiercely competitive with General Foods products. Although auto companies, cigarette manufacturers and soapmakers have long forbidden their agencies to handle other products in the same field, food advertisers have been traditionally lenient. Now that the biggest has decided on a stricter policy, others are likely to follow...
Situation ethics does admit to one absolute: love. In any moral decision, Fletcher argues, the key question is: "What does God's love demand of me in this particular situation?" By stressing the demand of love, situation ethics is at once more lenient and more stringent than law morality. It can command hard decisions as well as easy ones-acceptance of martyrdom, for example, when law morality would permit surrender or compromise. It can also say that certain acts are immoral which law ethics would consider tech nically valid. To the situationist, says Fletcher, "even a transient sex liaison...