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...Class of 1969, I have seen little change in Harvard's approach to the divestment issue over sixteen years. At our tenth reunion, my class officially voted to support divestment and deplored the "intransigence" of the Harvard Corporation on the issue. At our fifteenth reunion, we voted to reaffirm this position. Unless current members of the Harvard community can bring sufficient pressure to bear on President Bok and the Corporation, we may be reaffirming it again at our twentieth--if the racist government of South Africa has not fallen by that time. Jonathan M. Harris...
...feminist groups, the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus and the National Organization of Women, said the Democrats should reaffirm their support for the Equal Rights Amendment and for the right of women to have abortions...
Syria and some of the dissident Palestinian factions it supports had tried to block the meeting, fearing that it would reaffirm Arafat's waning control after almost 16 years as leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Their fears were justified. In what has become something of a yearly ritual. Arafat tendered his resignation as chairman, only to reclaim the title the following day at the insistence of loudly cheering throngs. Said he: "I'll remain because I am needed...
...Pope's lectures reaffirm a centuries-old Catholic belief, formalized in Pope Pius XI's 1930 encyclical Casti Connubii and Paul VI's 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae. The Pauline document, which created a furor, declared that "every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life." The reason: "In the plan of God" there is an "inseparable connection" between the "unitive meaning and procreative meaning" of the marital act. John Paul, when he was Bishop Karol Wojtyla, wrote an enthusiastic preface to the Polish edition of Humanae Vitae and was among the bishops who most vigorously...
...this goes over and beyond the simple American desire to prevent Soviet encroachment in the Western Hemisphere. Introduction of high-performance aircraft could be a prelude to tension-heightening Soviet actions. But these are merely additional reasons for our leaders, from both parties, to reaffirm the commitment of the United States to oppose, with force if necessary, the unwarranted and dangerous Central American arms buildup initiated b8 Nicaragua's Soviet-backed dictators...