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...four companies-including Warner-Lambert, SmithKline, Gillette and Phillips Petroleum-conferred privately with CBTV, some in apparent hope that Wildmon would excuse them from the boycott hit list if they would go and sin no more. Wildmon in turn announced: "I think consultation and conversation and compromise are far superior to confrontation. We've always said that a boycott is a last resort." Exulted Cal Thomas, vice president of communications for the Moral Majority: "It's like the prime rate. When No. 1 announces, a lot of others follow. The response we've gotten from advertisers since...
...another Maryknoll father, Roy Bourgeois, burst into the news when he disappeared in El Salvador, leaving behind a letter that accused the Reagan Administration of providing military aid to a "repressive dictatorship at war with its own people." Maryknoll Superior General James Noonan rushed from the society's headquarters in Ossining, N.Y., to El Salvador and indicated that the priest was the victim of foul play. After all, two Maryknoll nuns and two other missionaries had been murdered in December (six soldiers are currently under provisional arrest for the crime). But, to the embarrassment of Noonan and the whole...
...Sister Rose Mary McCormack, who directs the society's nuns in Peru, insists that Maryknollers are not Marxists, but adds: "They are in the same trench with us, fighting the same enemies. It breaks your heart when you see how poor the very poor of Peru can be." Superior General Noonan notes that while "Marxism has very little influence" on Maryknoll life, it is a handy label that opponents have found useful to discredit missionaries who are "asking for change in the basic structures of society...
...result is a film far superior to its predecessor and fairly successful in its own right. There's no way you can take Superman seriously for more than two hours, and in Part I, director Richard Donner couldn't quite figure out how to make the transition from rock 'em-sock 'em plot to a little self-deprecating dialogue or visual humor. Richard Lester masters this problem early on, and with good performances from his stars, gets you to root for the good guys at the same time that you laugh at them...
...matters stand, he is listed on the birth certificate but has no visitation rights. The presiding judge, Robert Olson of Los Angeles County Superior Court, believes that surrogates should always be free to change their minds and predicts that states will begin enacting laws dealing with such situations. Meantime, the tussle is likely to make prospective clients more wary of this increasingly popular arrangement...