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Gompers takes his academics as seriously as his running. Hoping to become involved in sports medicine, he labels himself as a Pio-Chem major and a Pre-Med candidate...
Other members of the delegation to the White House were Marshall W. Nirenberg, professor of genetics and biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health; Victor F. Weisskopf, professor of physics at MIT; and the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Pio Laghi...
...Rome seeking the infallibility decree. Instead, he asserts, Pius and the bishops supporting him outmaneuvered opponents of infallibility -without ever answering their historical arguments against it-so effectively that the council "degenerated into a ritual, mock discussion." Hasler provides new details on just how the outwardly jovial, accommodating "Pio Nono" plotted to get his infallibility decree...
...political amnesty, repeal of anti-terrorist laws legalizing extreme repression, an opening of the political system to all parties except the Communists, and the replacement of the current government with "new men." The "moderates" hope to install politicians like the former Francoist ministers of information Manuel Fraga Iribarne and Pio Cabanillas, who are too liberal for the bunker but are "gut fascists" nevertheless. The "moderates" want to integrate Spain into western Europe, stripping the nation of the political forms which provoke internal rebellion and keep Spain out of the Common Market, but not allowing any social change...
Said Minister of Information and Tourism Pio Cabanillas: "There has been a perfect transfer of constitutional power without any signs of anxiety by the Spanish people." Not quite. Many Spaniards are worried that after Franco dies Spain's various long-thwarted factions will begin contesting for power. If that happens, political observers doubt whether the good-natured Juan Carlos would be able to maintain stability...