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Yesterday morning, along with 15 other newspapers, we called for a nationwide student strike. We reaffirm that position. And we repeat that this strike--the form of which will be determined by students at different campuses--is not a strike against the universities. It is a strike against the war. Classes need not be cancelled, exams need not be forgotten, but students here and across the country must interrupt their placid college lives to deliver once again the ultimatum to the Nixon Administration: You cannot expand the war in Asia without risking massive protest at home...
...Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds selected Brandeis Historian Leon A. Jick to direct their new Institute for Jewish Life, Jick emphasized that the $1,350,000 earmarked for the institute over the next three years would go to projects that specifically deepened American Jewish experience. "We intend to reaffirm the value of the Diaspora," said Jick. "Jews in America can't live vicariously in another country. If our Judaism is going to be Portnoy's Complaint and Goodbye, Columbus, what...
...when one spouse suffers permanent mental incapacity. It also says the church should explore the possibility of communal and other sex styles for the unmarried. The church's General Assembly voted to "receive" the report for study after deciding by a narrow margin to insert this amendment: "We reaffirm our adherence to the moral law of God that adultery, prostitution, fornication, and/or the practice of homosexuality...
...sting of those slaps, Nixon accordingly decided to turn Hirohito's routine refueling stop in Alaska into a chiefs-of-state ceremony complete with booming cannon, Marine Corps trumpeters and satellite coverage of the event for Japan's five TV networks. But even as the President prepared to reaffirm Japanese-American friendship, the U.S. administered yet another slap to Japan...
...that marks the young Catholic's entry into the adult church, a kind of personal Pentecost in which he gathers strength from the Holy Spirit to become a mature Christian. Usually administered to youngsters between the age of seven and their early teens, the sacrament is meant to reaffirm their baptismal commitment, and is generally conferred personally by a bishop...