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...insisted to Daley that if he fails to back Muskie, he might jeopardize his position in Chicago. The Polish wards in particular are ardently pro-Muskie. He is the choice of two of Daley's top lieutenants: Daniel T. Rostenkowski, leader of the Illinois congressional delegation, and Congressman Roman Pucinski, whom Daley has picked to run against Republican Senator Charles Percy. Last week Senator Adlai Stevenson III also endorsed Muskie. A number of people have filed to enter the primary pledged to Muskie; some of them are not even known to the candidate's camp...
...former French Middle Congo, which insisted that Mobutu had no right to unilaterally change the name of the Congo River since it is an international waterway and threatened to take the matter to the World Court. Some outsiders were unkind enough to suggest that Mobutu, a missionary-educated Roman Catholic, might well de-Westernize himself by dropping his Christian names. The President, as it happens, had that thought in mind. Last week he announced that he was considering renaming himself Sese-Seko-Kuku-Ngbendu-Wa-Za-Banga Mobutu, which means, roughly, the hot-blooded warrior and man of the soil...
...year-olds do with that?" she asked a meeting of Washington's 20th Century Club. "We are denying them the whole knowledge of love and showing them only the animalistic characteristics. Why, when we know what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, when we know what happened to the Roman Empire, do we believe that we can escape that kind...
...Roman Catholic laymen's group, after a year of trying to find out more about church finances, charged in a report last week that there was not enough information to find out. The National Association of Laity graded the financial reporting of each U.S. diocese on a scale from A to F. Only two of the nation's eight largest -Chicago and Detroit-got as much as a D. New York and Los Angeles rated F for being "misleading." Brooklyn, Newark and Philadelphia (home of John Cardinal Krol, president of the U.S. bishops' conference) have never even...
...Roman Catholic investments, which are mostly made by dioceses, are not covered in the report. Few bishops have released full information about them, and none have so far shown interest in the N.C.C. project...