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...allowed to operate only five working days. Most will carry on business as usual this week, then close down for a Christmas holiday, from Dec. 21 to Jan. 2. Thereafter, unless coal supplies increase, most industries and businesses will be on a three-day week determined by a rota system-half working Mondays through Wednesdays, the other half Thursdays through Saturdays. Industries that depend on a continuous supply of power, such as oil refineries and steel furnaces, will have to live with 65% of their normal ration. The food industry will be exempt from the restrictions, as will such essential...
...than from the perfect characterizations of Brando's Godfather, and At Pacino, James Caan, and Robert Duvall as his natural and adopted sons. Francis Ford Coppola has directed with a line enough eye to make all the connections between them apparent: Gordon Willis's septa-tinged photography and Nino Rota's robust music help sustain the varying moods of his emotional Italians...
...Roman Catholic couple who want to end a rocky marriage, there has been only one avenue within the church: a decree of nullity. As critics have repeatedly pointed out, that avenue has been tortuous and expensive, often leading from local hearings all the way up to the Sacred Rota, the church's supreme marriage tribunal. In recent years, Pope Paul VI has streamlined the cumbersome process, allowing more decisions on the local level and eliminating the legal delays that could drag a case out for as long as 20 years. But despite Vatican attempts to limit legal fees, costs...
Last week the Vatican sought again to correct that problem by clamping a firm ceiling on fees for Rota trials-and promptly found itself under fire from both the press and the Rota lawyers. In a circular letter to bishops, Dino Cardinal Staffa, the curial prefect whose jurisdiction includes the Rota, explained that lawyers' fees for annulment cases would henceforth be permitted to range only from $255 to $510. Trial costs would range from $425 to $595. To ensure compliance with the ceilings, all costs would be paid to the court, which would then pay the lawyers...
Anticlerical newspapers immediately jumped on the Vatican, charging that it was using the lower rates to compete with the new Italian civil-divorce procedures. The Rota lawyers-an elite body of 86 lay and clerical canon lawyers allowed to argue before the Holy Court-were even more incensed. Fifty of them went on strike, saying they would handle no further cases until the new rules are changed. Many consider it humiliating that the new system no longer permits them to negotiate directly with a client. Worse, say some, the changes will make it far too easy for the tax collector...