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...Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. But that is one of the few Catholic opinions to remain firm over the past decade. In a report just published in the Critic, Priest-Sociologist Andrew M. Greeley and three colleagues compared the results of the new survey with a roughly parallel poll taken in 1963 and found that many Catholic habits and attitudes had changed...
AROUND ABOUT 1966, when Prince produced and directed Cabaret, things begin to liven up. What drew him to the play, he explains, was "the parallel between the spiritual bankruptcy of Germany in the 1920s and our country in the 1960s." At the first rehearsal, Prince showed the actors a photograph of "a group of Aryan blonds in their late teens, stripped to the waist, wearing religious medals, snarling at the camera like a pack of hounds." The cast placed the picture in pre-war Germany. Actually, Prince pointed out ominously, it was a gang of toughs fighting the integration...
...Agency of late. The agency was tarnished by Watergate and embarrassed by revelations that it had spent $8 million to undermine Chilean President Salvador Allende's Marxist government. Last week threatened to bring even worse opprobrium. On Capitol Hill, the heads of four different committees and subcommittees announced parallel investigations of the CIA to begin when Congress reconvenes. From his vacation retreat in Vail, Colo., Gerald Ford ordered up a report by CIA Director William E. Colby that was flown to him by courier plane. The cause of the furor was a story in the New York Times charging...
...Martinique Compromise, reached by President Ford and French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, put the U.S. and France essentially "in parallel," meaning that each will try to support the other's approach while not abandoning its own. The U.S. went along with French wishes for two OPEC-consumer meetings next year. Between them, though, there will be conferences among consumer countries only, a French concession...
...income tax of up to 91% on all revenues earned from oil pumped in Norwegian fields. Moreover, it has created a state-owned oil company, Statoil, that must be included as a partner in nearly all private drilling ventures. The government flatly forbids drilling north of the 62nd parallel, where most of the nation's 30,000 fishermen live and work. The fishermen fear that oil spills and giant rigs will destroy their fishing banks. Besides being the mainstay of the nation's economic prosperity-at least until the oil boom-the fishermen represent a potent political force...