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...give a brief summation of the points he had discussed and then he opened the forum to questions. He called first on a woman who inquired into actions of the Church which were unmistakably sexist in excluding women from the Church hierarchy. Curtly dismissing her question as outside the sphere of the evening's discussion, the Cardinal fielded another question; then he called on me. I brought up the apparent inconsistencies I was observing throughout his talk. Then I asked him to explain how, if the Church is interested in peace and equality and wants...
...Terrorism denies the distinction between state and society, public and private, government and individual, the distinction that lies at the heart of humane belief. For the terrorist, as for the totalitarian state, there are no innocent bystanders, no private citizens. Terrorism denies that there is any private sphere, that individuals have any rights or any autonomy separate from or beyond politics. There are thus no standards according to which the individual citizen, or the threatened society, can attempt to come to terms with the totalitarian terrorist. There is no way to satisfy his demands...
...celebrated his 55th birthday last week, Gorbachev seemed pleased with the results of the party congress. "Nothing remained outside the sphere of critical analysis," he said. "This, comrades, is in the best traditions of our party and of Bolshevism...
...Urumqi time is Peking time." He was, of course, correct, even though the provincial capital is 2,000 miles west of Peking. Until now, all time in China, which sprawls across four time zones, has been Peking time. But the Middle Kingdom has been undergoing rapid change in every sphere, and time is no exception. As of Feb. 1, Urumqi was allowed to set its clocks according to geography's ukase rather than Peking...
...J.P.L. experts interpret the tape as showing a bright sphere of flame appearing well above one of the boosters' lower skirts. It is on the interior side, facing the external tank and pointing away from the orbiter. A fraction of a second later, the sphere of flame becomes a cone-shaped jet of fire. The pointed end of the cone emerges from the booster, and its rounded end seems to aim at the fuel tank, apparently burning a hole in its side. The next thing to be seen is the huge fireball, engulfing everything...