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...French town of Belfort (pop. 65,000), Philosophy Teacher Nicole Mercier, 28, was asked by her high school students to discuss a widely circulated pamphlet entitled Apprenons à Faire l'Amour (Let's Learn to Make Love), which recommends that teenagers engage in sexual intercourse of all varieties. When she agreed, one pupil told her father, an army colonel, who cried out: "This is not sex education! This is an invitation to debauchery...
Within 24 hours, authorities arraigned Mme. Mercier for an "outrage" against public morals, a crime for which she faced up to two years in prison and $3,600 in fines. Mme. Mercier's fellow teachers struck Belfort's three schools for several days in protest, and there was even talk of a nationwide strike...
Last week all charges against Mme. Mercier were thrown out of court, and the Ministry of Education announced a compromise. Starting next fall, for the first time, students will receive "information on reproduction" as part of their regular high school biology classes. To learn more than that about lovemaking, they may enroll in special after-school classes to be run by physicians and representatives of birth-control organizations...
...only surprise that evening was supper-freshly killed gazelle, plus a vintage Bordeaux and chilled Mercier 1962 brut. The wines had been air-dropped by helicopter. Garros was rather embarrassed. "To be effective," he says, a legionnaire "must be cold, hungry and miserable. Luxury kills faster than bullets...
...Brussels restaurant owner, Suenens was raised by his widowed mother, sponsored for the priesthood and sent to Rome to study at 17 by Belgium's Desire Cardinal Mercier. The young Suenens chose the progressive cardinal as his spiritual director and carried on a close correspondence with him. A brilliant student at Rome's Gregorian University, where he earned doctorates in theology and philosophy and a baccalaureate in canon law, Suenens returned to Belgium to become a professor of philosophy, at the age of 25, at Malines Seminary. A decade later he was named vice-rector of Belgium...