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...swift or easy solution is in sight. The eventual outcome has import far beyond The Netherlands; for the Dutch church is often regarded by liberals elsewhere as a "pluriform" pattern of the future. If so, it may be a future minus a priesthood. Opposition to celibacy and the Vatican runs so deep that only 15 seminarians sought ordination in Holland in 1978. There are only 2,900 active parish priests left, compared with 4,175 at the close of Vatican...
...part a wild goose chase, but it was a snowy plover chase and a glossy ibis chase as well. For James Vardaman, 58, had decided that he would spend 1979-from New Year's Day to New Year's Eve-trying to become the first person to sight 700 different species of birds in North America within one year. "Hot damn!" he remembers saying when he thought of the idea. "That's my kind of challenge...
Such grousing leaves Vardaman un-ruffed. His next project is to sight more than 5,000 varieties of birds around the world in one year. Meanwhile, he can comfort himself with the thought that he did find two more birds of a different feather in 1979. On the last day of the year, a neighbor gave him a bottle of Wild Turkey whisky with a paper bird wired to its neck. That gave him 700 after...
This, rather than the political or economic outlook, seems to me to explain why it is becoming so rare to see what Einstein called the lovelist sight in the world: a smiling face...
...first dramatic signs of the Soviet action appeared on Christmas morning. Moscow suddenly began a massive airlift of combat soldiers to Afghanistan. The suspected motive at the time: to help the Afghan regime put down the rebellion of conservative Muslim tribesmen. In full sight of arriving and departing passengers, wave after wave of Soviet An-12 and An-22 transports landed at Kabul's international airport and unloaded not only combat troops but equipment ranging from field kitchens to armored vehicles...