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Thompson continues: "Falkirk Mining Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the North American Coal Company. The project was set up in such a way as to enable Falkirk to benefit from large, low-interest loans which Cooperative Power and United Power were able to obtain from the Rural Electrification Administration. The contract between Falkirk, United Power, and Cooperative Power is set up in such a way that the more Falkirk's cost of production increases, the more money they receive. The cost of the project has already increased from $536 million to $1.2 billion, and the electricity it produces...
...Mass on the Washington Mall on his last Sunday in the U.S., John Paul is expected to express his profound concern about the disintegration of family life everywhere, especially in the U.S. He is disturbed about the prevalence of divorce and the ease with which Catholics can obtain annulments from American church authorities. He is distressed by the widespread use of artificial birth control among U.S. Catholics, and he regards abortion as a violation of human rights...
...reality that had also bedeviled its predecessor. We could not simply walk away from an enterprise involving two Administrations, five allied countries and 31,000 American dead as if we were switching a television channel. For a great power to abandon a small country to tyranny simply to obtain a respite from our own domestic travail seemed to me-and still seems to me-profoundly immoral and destructive of our efforts to build a new and ultimately more peaceful pattern of international relations. We could not revitalize the Atlantic Alliance if its governments were assailed by doubt about American staying...
Rosovsky also came down this week on short-term Faculty absences, charging that professors increasingly have taken leaves of several weeks without soliciting his permission. The Faculty rules require professors to obtain approval from Rosovsky before leaving the University for longer than a week...
...Zamboanga City, a building contractor complains that the illicit kickbacks he is forced to pay to obtain government contracts have jumped to 20%. Nowadays, he adds, even "someone from the Government Auditor's Department [supposedly an anticorruption watchdog agency] comes along and demands his own payoff to keep quiet...