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While some Catholic progressives greeted the new rules as a step in the right direction, however small, outspoken Theologian Hans Kung (Infallible?, Why Priests?) of Germany's Tubingen University was less sanguine. Küng called the regulations "poorly applied cosmetics . . . eyewash for the growing choir of criticism from both clergy and laity." A case in point for Küng's skepticism is one of the Pope's recent episcopal choices, Bishop Johannes Gijsen of the Dutch diocese of Roermond, who was selected over the nominees of the diocesan chapter. Three days after the Vatican announced...
...instance Ngo Ba Thanh, an authority on international law trained at Columbia Law School, has been repeatedly imprisoned for her outspoken opposition to the Thieu regime. Although her damp cell at Thu Duc prison has aggravated her already severe asthma, Mrs. Thanh refuses to surrender her beliefs...
Most bravely outspoken among them is Terry Sanford, 54, ex-Governor of North Carolina who is now the president of Duke University. Last month he became a surprise entry in the May 6 North Carolina primary because, says one of his aides, "he couldn't stand the thought of a Wallace victory in his home state-and figured that nobody but Terry Sanford could beat...
...largest newspaper; of cancer; in Paris. Lazareff escaped to the U.S. during the Nazi occupation and worked for the Office of War Information. In 1945 he returned to Paris and led the postwar growth of both France-Soir and Elle, the women's fashion magazine. Though Lazareffs outspoken support of Charles de Gaulle resulted in the bombing of his home and newspaper offices during the Algerian crisis, his aggressive management of France-Soir earned him the title "Napoleon of journalists"-and a daily circulation...
...British subject, the stocky dean has long been an outspoken opponent of the government's racial policies. He had been convicted of supporting violent revolution and of distributing funds for an illegal anti-apartheid organization. Last week, in a 226-page judgment, three appellate judges at Bloemfontein ruled that the mere expression of antigovernment views, "even in somewhat intemperate terms," could not be equated with terrorism. The verdict, as one clergyman put it, was a triumph "not only for the church but for the judiciary...