Word: masse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late Friday night, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) had reversed his position supporting aid to the Salvadoran government. By midday Saturday, Boston Mayor Ray Flynn had joined in the call for an end to military aid and assisted outraged citizens in organizing a Sunday protest that drew 3000 people. Activists also raised more than $10,000 in emergency medical aid over the weekend...
Prompted by those alarming demographic trends, the bishops endorsed a new rite that, if approved by the Vatican, can be used in place of Sunday Mass in parishes where no priest is available. The "Order for Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest" allows a bishop to designate a deacon or a nonordained sister, brother or lay member to lead a prayer service based on the Scriptures. The bishops took care to see that such services will not mimic the Mass. The rules do provide, however, for the addition of an optional Communion service using sacramental bread previously consecrated...
Some bishops were troubled by the prospect of substitute services. William McManus, a retired Indiana bishop, warned that the strong tradition of Sunday Mass could be undermined "if we bless this monster." Bishop Raymond Lucker of New Ulm, Minn., urged a study of the priest shortage that would face such issues as "Why can't we ordain people other than celibate males?" For the Vatican, however, that is a question not open to discussion...
...Soviet Union is free to choose between Japan and the U.S. for high technology, just as we are free to choose between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In fact, the U.S. can't make reliable one-megabit chips. Japan is the only country that can mass-produce high-performance semiconductors. When I said this at the party, the Americans turned pale. But let me remind you that I was only responding to American threats that Soviet- American detente left no room for Japan...
...summer long John Kennedy had brooded, waiting for Nikita Khrushchev to make good on his threat to get rid of "the bone in my throat" -- partitioned Berlin. But he had not anticipated what would happen on that warm August afternoon in 1961 when he set out from Hyannis Port, Mass., on the yacht Marlin loaded with family and his favorite picnic dish, fish chowder...