Word: reportion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another troubling issue seemed to be clearing up last week when Intelligence Committee Chairman Birch Bayh and Vice Chairman Barry Goldwater asserted that the U.S. possesses the "technical means" to monitor Soviet compliance with the treaty. The committee's final report was not an absolute assurance that verification problems have been overcome, and Ohio's Democratic Senator John Glenn was still deeply troubled by that issue. But the report helped to reduce fears that the loss of Iranian listening posts and other U.S. intelligence shortcomings would significantly impair surveillance of Soviet weaponry. Said one Democratic Senator: "This...
...limiting the size of their families. Nine years later the approval for marketing birth control pills raised the hope that such biochemical controls would be regarded as "natural" by the church. Pope John XXIII appointed a special commission to examine the matter. Its confidential, but later leaked, majority report to Paul VI in 1966 warned against avoiding childbearing for selfish reasons. Going beyond Pius XII's position, however, the report called for collaboration with "men of learning and science" to find "decent and human means" of birth control (by implication, the Pill). Morality depends on the good...
That he might do so is precisely the hope of a research report on Women in Church and Society, published last year by the Catholic Theological Society of America. But the equality of men and women, stressed in America, is not yet a subject of such pressing interest to Catholics in those parts of the world (Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia) where the majority of Roman Catholics live...
...decide and must be sure before saying yes. After that he must keep his word. John Paul has not approved any of the thousands of pending requests from priests to be released from their vows and revert to lay status with church approval. The Pope is now awaiting a report on the "laicization" of priests from a special commission. The matter may be taken up at an extraordinary meeting of the College of Cardinals, scheduled for next month...
...makers of these low-slung models report substantial backlogs, with customers on a waiting list of up to 20 months. Maserati could double its production rate of two cars a day and still not fulfill all its orders. This year Aston Martin will sell 320 models (vs. 287 in 1978) and increase production next June from six cars a week to seven...