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...until 1968 that Governor Nelson Rockefeller, through a combination of power and guile, finally got rid of the by then 80-year-old Moses. Rockefeller is also a man who does not take no for an answer, as well as a politician singularly immune to pressure from banks and labor unions...
...nearly 70 years ago that when people have failed to rise from poverty but have indulged the patronage of the rich too long, "we should, with many apologies and expressions of sympathy, and some generosity in complying with their last wishes, place them in the lethal chamber and get rid of them." Paul Kersey in Death Wish is Shaw's willing champion, but somewhere he has missed the message...
...then the Sinai war, the Six-Day War, the war of attrition, the Yom Kippur War-and now the water war. Last week, when Soviet minesweepers intruded into Israel's waters in the Gulf of Suez, Israeli Hornet patrol boats confronted them. What could the Russians do to rid themselves of the pesky Israelis? The Soviet captain finally decided on an unusual tactic: he had his crew fire water cannons at the Israeli boats, causing them to duck out of range. But they remained on station, and the Soviets finally left the same day. Israel has complained...
...from a Vatican cardinal, Pereira abruptly resigned his Mozambique diocese, apparently to take up some vague duties in Rome in preparation for the 1975 Holy Year. In a rather belated effort to shore up church credibility in the soon to be independent Portuguese colonies, the Vatican is moving to rid the territories of churchmen who were too closely tied to the old colonial posture. Whatever credibility remains, of course, will probably be due to the compassion of the very missionaries whom Archbishop Pereira once denounced...
...While the Vatican seeks to rid Catholicism of any colonial taint in Portuguese Africa, the liberal Protestant South African Council of Churches has taken a bold stand against racism in its own country. At a recent national conference, council delegates passed a strong resolution warning that racial tension in South Africa is leading to "violence and war." And if it came to this, the council added, Christians should seriously question whether they could participate in armed battle against liberation forces. The resolution reasoned that both "Catholic and Reformation theology" teach that Christians can only participate in a just...