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...small brown identification tag with his name inscribed in English as NO. It was the most common pronunciation of his surname. Quickly, however, the unpropitious English meaning of no got to him. Using a less frequent but acceptable pronunciation, No Tae Woo became Roh Tae Woo. Said Roh: "N-o is negative, and I am a positive person. So I prefer R-o-h." He will need that kind of flexibility to lead his country on the still bumpy path toward democracy...
...document, adopted unanimously by the board but not completed until after adjournment of the bishops' annual meeting, took a number of prelates by surprise. Some were appalled; others found the text woefully fuzzy. Early off the mark was John Cardinal O'Connor of New York City, who called the document a "grave mistake." O'Connor, a leader of the conservative, Rome-oriented wing of U.S. Catholicism and the only clergyman on President Reagan's AIDS commission, complained that it had caused "serious confusion" among Catholics and in the press. Conservative Cardinals John Krol of Philadelphia and Bernard Law of Boston...
...clear division emerged between the Bernardin group and Pope John Paul II's more recent conservative appointees, notably Law and O'Connor. As other bishops across the U.S. last week lined up on either side of the argument, it was widely speculated that the issue went beyond condoms and involved a struggle for ascendancy in the American church. Said Syndicated Columnist Joseph Sobran, a conservative Catholic: "It's all come to a head in this statement...
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