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...capabilities of the communist forces in the South, though they are probably making the logistics of supplying these forces more difficult; and they are exacting an enormous cost from the United States in terms of planes and pilots lost. A stop to the bombing, moreover, appears to be a sine qua non for negotiations in the foreseeable future...
...famous erotic poet on grounds that he gave too much of himself to his stanzas, Gertrud is about to leave her husband (Bendt Rothe), a lawyer with Cabinet-level aspirations. Briefly, she tries a flighty playboy-pianist who decides that "the complete absorption of one another" as the sine qua non of sensual pleasure is not for him. Life ends, for Gertrud, in white-haired seclusion, though she still declares her credo to be love above...
...Craft of Kingship. Rarer and more precious than rubies in Southeast Asia, however, is political stability and its sine qua non: a sense of belonging to a nation. The Thais have both. Though various ruling officers have come and gone since a 1932 coup gently displaced the King as absolute ruler, Kings and soldiers have combined, in a typical Thai equilibrium of accommodation, to provide a smooth chain linkage of government. The Thai sense of nationhood is partly the result of never having felt the trauma of colonial conquest. Even more, it resides in the charisma of the throne, reinforced...
TIME'S discussion of clerical celibacy [Feb. 18] has done a great service by bringing into the open a festering sore in the structure of the church. Celibacy as a sine qua non for the priesthood of the Latin Rite is a product neither of the demands of faith nor of the conclusions of sound theology. The stress on celibacy in Western Catholicism at times borders on the irrational. The Oriental Church has realized the error of identifying a vocation to the priesthood with a vocation to the celibate life...
...folly of continuing the war and to sit down to talk. That failed; so all through the summer of last year the President weighed the obvious alternative: a cessation of bombing to encourage Hanoi to discuss peace. Moscow, Peking, Hanoi, and even Western European capitals kept insisting that the sine qua non of opening communications with Hanoi was a stop to the bombing. Last May the U.S. tried a five-day pause. It produced not a single "signal" of a softening on the Communist side, but critics both at home and abroad replied that five days was far too short...