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Judge: The law guarantees freedom of religion, and the teaching of religion is allowed by our [proCommunist] peace priests. But nobody can expect the state to entrust these functions to persons who by their behavior have shown themselves as sworn enemies of the state...
...have me confused. I would have sworn that I gave the commencement address at San Fernando Valley State College this year. And I talked about computers too, although not nearly so poetically as James Dickey...
...took seven years, but last week Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub was finally sworn in as the Sudan's Prime Minister. Back in 1958, the conservative coalition parties, Umma and National Union, had just agreed privately to name Mahgoub Prime Minister when General Ibrahim Abboud staged his takeover, and instead of heading a Cabinet, Mahgoub spent seven months in jail...
...revolt trooped into the U.S. embassy, asked U.S. Ambassador Tapley Bennett to arrange a ceasefire. He called Wessin y Wessin, who immediately agreed. Fearing reprisals, dozens of rebels, including Acting President Molina, fled to political asylum in foreign embassies. A junta composed of pro-Wessin y Wessin officers was sworn in as a provisional government...
...Sworn to secrecy about their work, 50-odd members of Pope Paul's advisory commission on birth control met last week for three days of discussion at Rome's Spanish College. Their job is to prepare a report for the Pope to help him formulate an authoritative position on the Roman Catholic Church's most vexing issue. But so far, the experts are widely divided...