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From Détente to Defense. Many Western leaders are frankly concerned that the Soviets-because of a power struggle within the Kremlin or growing desperation at the rise of liberal trends in Eastern Europe and within the Soviet Union-have embarked on a course of aggression that might get...
A jovial, kindhearted prelate who still speaks with a strong Irish brogue, O'Boyle had first tried persuasion with the recalcitrant priests. In a ten-page letter to each of them last month, he exuded a gentle, parental tone. "I hope you'll read [this] through," O'...
The adjournment order provides for the legislature to reconvene briefly in September to reconsider any vetoed legislation, but it prohibits enactment of any new legislation. Unruh, no friend of Fellow Democrat Burns, called assemblymen to meet in defiance of the order. Despite a Republican boycott, the Democrats managed to pass...
Vetoing 80%. Originally set up by Pope John XXIII, the commission on birth control was composed of lay and clerical experts in the field, and included medical doctors and sociologists. In June 1966, the commission submitted its final report to the Pope, and authoritative sources reported that 80% of the...
Johnson was particularly upset by the bill's Title III, authorizing local and state police wiretapping and electronic surveillance under a court order. Calling on Congress to "immediately reconsider" the provision, he warned that it could lead to "a nation of snoopers bending through the keyholes of the homes...