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Ottaviani's most significant defeat came in discussion of the draft constitution on Scripture and tradition proposed by the commission he heads. Liberals believe that Scripture and tradition should be "like two arcs in the same searchlight" -a change that would delight Protestants, who have long been put off by Catholic emphasis on tradition. But Ottaviani's proposals reflect the opposite view: that Scripture and tradition are two separate "founts of revelation," that Scripture must be read under "ecclesiastical guidance...
Ramfis Trujillo denied that his men were making mass arrests. "Those detained are only those closely involved in the plot," he said. But Dominicans, after 31 years of Trujillo tyranny, fear what is in store when the corps of foreign journalists and the OAS investigating team turn off the searchlight and depart...
...around uncertainly for its misplaced national purpose, Britain last week was taking a comfortable look at its native culture. A 76-page addition to the London Times Literary Supplement examined "The British Imagination" in a score of fields, ranging from poetry to science, women to snobbery. What the critical searchlight revealed, concluded the Times editorially, was "more diversity than richness, [a] greater sense of experimentation, consolidation, detachment, compromise (all the British virtues in fact) than actual positive achievement...
...infantry troops of the Golani Brigade pushed off in files toward their objective: the Arab village of Tawafik. It lies in the demilitarized zone just below the Syrian-held hills, in an area that has been the subject of 755 complaints from the Israelis since 1951. When a Syrian searchlight stabbed at the advancing armor, the Israeli unit commander coolly radioed his artillery base: "I would be greatly indebted to you if you would kindly switch off that projector which is disturbing my work." Israeli shells zeroed in, and the light snapped off. As Syrian artillery opened up, the Israeli...
...spiky spread of cold stars." In The Gentle Art, she neatly combines her love of the African land with her often shocked observation of its inhabitants. It deals with another night under the cold stars, this time on a wide and sullen river during a hunt for crocodiles. The searchlight's beam picks up the two glowing, red eyes of a crocodile on the river bank. From a distance of three yards the hunter fires and the crocodile's head explodes. The still twitching saurian is hauled aboard, and one of Nadine Gordimer's hearty women...