Word: louvain
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...three hours, a hemorrhaging pregnant Antwerp housewife with four children waited for an ambulance to take her to the hospital. Before it arrived, she died. In Louvain, a four-year-old girl suffocated to death while her parents tried for an hour and a half to summon medical assistance. All over Belgium last week, the sick and the dying similarly went without medical attention, except-when it could be provided-in dire emergencies. The reason was a crippling doctors' strike in which 85% of the nation's 12,000 physicians and dentists closed their offices...
...learned journals with modest circulations. Future church historians may well date a profound change in Roman Catholic thinking on marriage from the current issue of a scholarly Belgian periodical called Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, There, the Rev. Louis Janssens, 56, a respected professor of moral theology at the University of Louvain, cautiously endorsed oral contraceptive pills as a legitimate means of family limitation for Catholic couples...
...Orthodox prelates on the prickly question of intercommunion. A close personal friend of Liverpool's Roman Catholic Archbishop John Heenan, who is the odds-on favorite to become the next English cardinal, Ramsey last year became the first Archbishop of Canterbury to lecture at Belgium's Catholic Louvain University. He hopes to visit Pope Paul VI in Rome after the Vatican Council ends...
Zita insisted that Otto be accorded the full privileges of his rank, rose and curtsied when he entered a room, and called him "Your Imperial Highness." A thoughtful, scholarly youth, Otto studied at Belgium's Louvain University, by his serious demeanor stood off phalanxes of eligible European princesses. When one young, attractive Hungarian countess came to pay homage, Otto strolled silently with her for some minutes in his garden until he suddenly asked: "Have you ever thought how industrious ants...
...compromise was a failure, and last week demonstrations broke out in Brussels and Louvain, both of which are north of the line and both of which have always been accorded a measure of bilingual status. At Louvain University, Walloon professors and students went out on strike, boycotting lectures and classes in protest over the proposed bilingual split of the traditionally French-speaking university. In an attempt to solve the explosive situation, Premier Lefevre called for a two-week "language armistice" while his government tried to work out another compromise. But with Parliament split along language lines, there was little hope...