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...others, the lack of divorce laws works a greater hardship. One girl married at 20 only to discover that her musician-groom was impotent. She has spent the past six years petitioning the Vatican's marriage court for an annulment. Until the Sacred Rota finally decides her case, she must avoid any relationship that would destroy the only evidence on which her plea rests: her virginity. A woman married her brother-in-law after her husband was declared dead in World War II and bore her second spouse two children. When the first husband reappeared unexpectedly, he became...
...Spain since 1953. As the expiration date approached, Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz flew to Washington to meet President Nixon and State Department officials. They hacked out an "agreement in principle" to hold the lease open while talk continues. The airbases are no longer essential, but Rota is an important base for Polaris submarines. Bargaining broke down with Spain wanting $700 million in military aid and the U.S. offering $140 million. Lately, however, the gap has narrowed. Spain is believed to be asking near $300 million, the U.S. going nearer $200 million. Nixon would like to keep...
...miles across the Atlantic and into the history books. Died. Francis Cardinal Brennan, 74, Pennsylvania Irishman who rose to the highest Vatican post ever held by an American; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia. A brilliant canon lawyer, Brennan in 1940 was the first American appointed to the Sacred Rota, Roman Catholicism's court of last appeal in marriage, in 1959 became its chief judge, and last January was named the first American to head the Curia's Congregation of Sacraments, which ensures the correct administration of the seven sacraments. Died. Richard Maney, 77, dean of Broadway pressagents...
...destroyers shadow the U.S. carriers in the Mediterranean, keeping a watch offshore when the carriers go into port and taking up the chase again when they come out. A fleet of espionage ships keeps watch off U.S. Polaris submarine bases at such places as Holy Loch in Scotland, Rota in Spain and Charleston, S.C. Other snoopers sit off Seattle, New England, and Cape Kennedy, where the Soviets monitor the U.S. space shots...
...Patrick O'Boyle, 70, of Washington, D.C., has a reputation within the church of being a sturdy champion of minority rights and a skillful organizer of charities. The fourth new U.S. cardinal, Pennsylvania-born Francis J. Brennan, 73, has for eight years been dean of the Sacred Roman Rota, the church's highest tribunal on marriage matters...