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Indeed, Wojtyla is known as a staunch conservative on specific issues of doctrine, morality and church authority. On the birth-control question, Wojtyla was on record against all artificial methods in his book Love and Responsibility (1960) before Paul VI took the same position in his much attacked Humanae Vitae encyclical of 1968. But the book also emphasized sexual pleasure for married couples ?an advanced view for a pre-Vatican II archbishop. Wojtyla has also taken an uncompromising stand against liberalized abortion, yet another issue on which he opposes Poland's Communist regime...
JIMMY CARTER roared through eastern Massachusetts Saturday to tell people they should vote for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed King because it is easier for the president to work with a Democratic team. The boy from Atlanta, (where, as one staunch New Englander pointed out, all they have is the Braves) might have been more persuasive in his call for party unity if he had realized that the Red Sox play in the American League and not the National League, as he said before a bewildered crowd of 25,000 in Lynn...
Both candidates are staunch advocates of the state's oil and gas interests. Krueger first gained notoriety when, as a freshman representative, he almost pushed a deregulation bill through the House. Bumperstickers which read "Krueger of Texaco" have surfaced recently, parodying his campaign slogan, "Krueger of Texas." And what Tower lacks in flair as a champion of industry, he makes up in consistency...
...proper Yankee of venerable lineage who is attracting the support of many liberal Democrats. Hatch, who proposes moderate tax relief, describes King's plan to cut property taxes by $1.3 billion over a three-year period as a "fiscal fantasy." MINNESOTA. Second only to the Bay State in its staunch liberalism, Minnesota has a Democratic candidate for the Senate no less conservative than King. Businessman Robert Short defeated liberal Congressman Donald Fraser in the primary, partly by calling for a whopping $100 billion cut (i.e. 20%) in the federal budget. Short's Independent-Republican opponent, David Durenberger, claims that such...
...than Nyerere. As elder statesman of the five black "frontline states" (Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Angola and Botswana) that want to erase the last vestiges of white rule in southern Africa, Nyerere's support for efforts to bring peace to the area is pivotal. Because of Nyerere's staunch support for liberation movements, Smith has unfairly dubbed him "the evil genius on the Rhodesian scene." That sobriquet overstates Nyerere's influence with the guerrillas; it also fails to convey the Tanzanian leader's desire for peace...