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Christianity, of course, has not generally been pacifist, subscribing instead to St. Augustine's "just war" theory. That theory, argues San Francisco's Catholic Archbishop John Quinn, requires that a licit conflict must produce more good than evil and must protect large populations from indiscriminate injury. On those criteria, says Quinn, "it could never be morally justified to use strategic nuclear weapons...
Cocaine is the caviar of drugs, except that it is 70 times as costly as the finest beluga. While an eclectic consumer might feel that caviar and a bottle of Bellinger brut give a headier, cheaper and wholly licit lift to an evening, many American hedonists get more of a kick* through the nose...
When Albuquerque Businessman Maxie Anderson, 45, and his son Kris, 23, completed the first nonstop transcontinental balloon flight in May, the four-day voyage of 2,818 miles from Fort Baker, Calif., to Ste. Félicité, Quebec, set a world record for overland flight. Another, more esoteric record was achieved in April by Jerry Dietrick, 56, of Florence, Ky., who became the first pilot to fly solo from Cincinnati to London to Munich in a single-engine plane of the 3,850-lb. to 6,414-lb. class...
...mouth of the St. Lawrence River, the Kitty Hawk was pushed by strong gusts toward high-power lines. The Royal Canadian Mounties, aboard a helicopter, came to the rescue. Using the backwash from the rotors, the chopper pilot pushed the balloon toward a clearing in Ste. Félicité, Quebec, where the gondola finally dropped to the ground, 99 hrs. and 54 min. after leaving San Francisco Bay. For once Maxie's mind was not on the next challenge, which he had previously suggested might be a balloon flight around the world. Said he: "I'll leave...
...Licit Lovers' Guide...