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That the church has been a pious fraud for centuries is no secret. What can more cogently point to its abnegation of moral authority than a serious consideration among the clergy of whether homosexuals can, apparently in good conscience, aspire to the pulpit? Why not prostitutes, too? After all, some of them may be "Christian believers...
After three days of debate, the Senators adjourned for a week-long recess; but before leaving Washington, they agreed to an unusual closed-door session next week to discuss charges that General Torrijos is involved in secret drug traffic. When the issue was raised by a treaty opponent, Robert Dole of Kansas, Fellow Republican Jacob Javits of New York argued that the point was meaningless. "We don't have to prove that Torrijos is an angel. I don't think he is ... What is important is whether the treaties are in the long-term interest of the United...
...force of over 1000 and widespread popular approval, especially in the poverty-stricken countryside. But regardless of their popularity, the FSLN can never succeed with a purely military approach. The strength of Somoza's power derives from his control of the 7500-member Guardia National, a combination army and secret police force trained and equipped by the U.S. The campesinosand slum-dwellers of Managua have no weapons to combat this counter-insurgent force; and their collective poverty further weakens their ability to resist...
Hiss insisted that he stopped seeing Chambers by mid-1936?about 18 months before the period when Chambers claimed to have received secret documents from him. But in interviews with Hiss and one of his lawyers, Weinstein learned that Pediatrician Margaret Nicholson recalled for the Hiss defense team that she encountered a heavyset, "very gruff man" at the Hiss home in January 1937. "You may not come in!" declared the man. Writes Weinstein: "From newspaper photographs in 1949, Dr. Nicholson recognized the man who had answered the door as Whittaker Chambers...
...When Harvard professors, administrators and students form a group to study undergraduate education--one of the few student-faculty committees supposed to provide students with a modicum of influence in this university--should this group then be considered a "private" group with the right to conduct its meetings in secret? After all, students and their parents pay over $7000 a year to Harvard University. Should not this expenditure entitle them to the right to know just what the CUE is doing? Many persons will argue that the CUE and the other student-faculty committees are inadequate. Surely, this accusation...