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...Bishop Bernard Flanagan of Worcester, whose diocese includes the Slaves' farm, that the excommunication of the aging, ailing Feeney was removed secretly in 1972 without a requirement that he recant. The Vatican's doctrinal office acted, with at least pro forma approval by the Pope, after a plea from Cushing's successor, Cardinal Humberto Medeiros...
Mayor Kevin H. White summoned more than 400 State and Metropolitan District Commission Police Wednesday after U.S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity rejected his plea for federal marshals...
...movie, Nevsky speaks in triumph to a mass of Russians who have assembled to celebrate their victory and pay him tribute. In his address he makes a plea for preparedness, a plea which Stalin and the Soviet leadership found themselves unable or unwilling to heed. In the context of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, which took place less than a year after the film was released, Alexander Nevsky must have seemed, to those who originally saw it, a meaningless film. To our good fortune, later historical events have made the movie, for all its flaws, anything but meaningless...
Edited into dollops of 150 to 300 words and titled simply "Will Rogers Says," the Oklahoma folk philosopher's recycled columns have something telling to say about all sorts of contemporary issues. Plea-bargaining by Watergate defendants? "It seems if he is lucky enough to get convicted, or confesses, why, he has a great chance of coming clear," Rogers wrote in a 1928 column on criminal-court procedures. Women's lib? "Imagine the idea that woman couldn't live happily at home and have an active mind" (1925). Gun control? "I see where...
...next morning the situation became deadlocked as Dutch negotiators, led by Premier Joop den Uyl, tried desperately to whittle away the resistance of the terrorists. At one point, the talks broke down entirely when the commandos refused to communicate with government spokesmen. The Dutch reopened communications by writing a plea in huge Japanese characters on a 20-ft. roll of paper that was spread out on the street below the embassy windows. The following night, a Boeing 707 and a crew, demanded by the Red Army commandos, was readied for takeoff at nearby Schiphol Airport. Several hours later, two women...