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Thus sang female Marines as they marched in cadence through twelve weeks of boot-camp training at Parris Island, S.C. until Peter Berle, president of the National Audubon Society, fired off a letter to Marine Commandant General Paul X. Kelley. "A tough Marine may well consider this as another crank letter from a pansy," wrote Berle, a former Air Force intelligence officer and veteran of 94 parachute jumps. But, he protested, the women could find some way to celebrate their toughness other than "idolizing people who squash birds' heads." Brigadier General Donald Miller, Kelley's top spokesman, promptly sent...
...Irish talks. They insist that any role by the Irish Republic in the affairs of the province is an infringement of British sovereignty. As such, they fear that the agreement marks the beginning of a process that will lead inevitably to a united Ireland under Dublin's control. Said Peter Robinson, deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party: "We're being cast aside, and there's a deep sense of betrayal...
Wearing white chasubles, a grand assemblage of Roman Catholic bishops will file through St. Peter's Square and into the basilica next Sunday to con-celebrate a Mass with Pope John Paul II. The stately ritual will mark the beginning of a two-week world synod of bishops, summoned by the Pope to commemorate and evaluate the results of the Second Vatican Council, which concluded 20 years...
That is precisely what worries some of John Paul's critics. One concern: the questionnaire soliciting the reports from national bishops' conferences asked about "errors or abuses" in applying the teachings of Vatican II. Peter Steinfels, editor of the U.S. journal Commonweal, says that among his colleagues "damage control is the most pertinent phrase" in synod talk. Father Simon E. Smith, former executive secretary of U.S. Jesuit Missions who is now working in Kenya, sees a Vatican scheme to "box in the spirit" of the council. This can be "thwarted only if the assembled bishops take their own agenda...
With 10:09 left in the third period, Princeton attackman Peter Trombino bounced a shot into the goal, eluding the grasp of the Harvard freshman goalie Evan O’Donnell. Only a few minutes later, with 7:12 minutes left in the quarter, the Tigers’ Jason Doneger snatched a pass from Pete Striebel and deposited into the back of the net, notching one of his five goals...