Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thus to miss the point. In the long run, Christianity in Latin America will be relevant only to the degree that it becomes identified with the contemporary social revolution. The Catholic Church has begun to realize this. By lending technical and professional assistance to church-sponsored programs of social reform, Papal Volunteers are witnessing to the fact that Christ came not to save souls, but to love...
Vote at 18? Nor is this all. This year 314 constitutional amendments have been introduced in the House. Ninety-eight deal with apportionment, 65 would give equal rights to women, 41 concern religion. Some of the others would establish a uniform voting age of 18, reform or abolish the electoral college, repeal the income tax, forbid federal-budget deficits except in time of national emergency, and double the two-year term of House members. Most of these also have been introduced in the Senate...
...when voters handed the ruling coalition a stunning setback in national elections. Harmel, a law professor and one of the rare Walloons who speak Dutch, is an expert on the problem, therefore seemed a likely choice to revive the battered coalition. He still hopes to win support for language reform. The issue is far from settled. Shortly before the new Premier took office, 80 Flemings stalked out of a church in the Flemish seaside resort of Ostend when the priest began the Mass in French for vacationing Walloons...
From that experience emerged one of the country's most advanced police-reform efforts: the New York State Identification and Intelligence System. Set up in 1963, the system is run by Robert J. Gallati, a former New York City assistant chief police inspector and holder of four law degrees. Gallati's goal is nothing less than the computerization of all crime data now scattered among the state's 3,636 law-enforcement agencies...
Money Maneuvers. In a direct maneuver against the U.S., France last week tried to undercut Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler's call for an international summit meeting to reform the world's monetary system (TIME, July 16). Said French Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing: "The suggested procedure of calling an international conference on this subject does not appear opportune." Though many experts interpreted this politely phrased jab as a flat rejection, the fact was that Giscard d'Estaing said much the same thing that Fowler had said-that considerable negotiating has to be done before...