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THE ADMINISTRATION'S consideration of SDS's request for rooms for its National Convention Against Racism has been marked by politically motivated intransigence. Every conceivable objection to the convention, including past debts, attendance limitations, and the convention's publicity, has been raised by the Administration.
There are also holdouts. The U.S. Episcopal Church, following a worldwide Anglican move, admits women deacons (83 so far out of a total of 379) but does not yet permit ordination of women priests. Some Anglicans fear that ordaining women might upset ecumenical talks with Roman Catholics, but the Roman...
Their reforms, however, are mainly in the political, social and liturgical spheres. Doctrinal issues that have plagued other European churches -even Italy's-do not trouble them: divorce, birth control (much less abortion) and the continuance of celibacy. The new liberals have backed such causes as the workers'...
> If they [antiwar demonstrators] are clean ... I have no objection to them. But if they look like they just came out of a rag bag, well I wonder. But even if they're not clean, they have thoughts and feelings, and I would as soon take their word about...
Bernadette's account of Bloody Sunday was delivered in low, almost theatrically whispered tones. The day before, though, she was the noisy protagonist of a highly unusual parliamentary drama. To a packed and impassioned Commons, Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, who is responsible for Ulster affairs, announced that the government...