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...political opposition in France has been unable to capitalize on Giscard's troubles. Though Communist Leader Georges Marchais has said, "I'm ready to unite with the devil to checkmate the Giscard-Barre policy," he and Socialist Chief François Mitterrand are bedeviled by a problem: they are not even on speaking terms. There has been no attempt by either man to patch up the bitter ideological split that destroyed their chances of winning last year's legislative elections. Jacques Chirac, the ambitious Paris mayor and neo-Gaullist leader who hopes to challenge Giscard...
...Though Moscow has long been upset by celebrated defectors, it has rarely taken violent action to bring them back home in the post-Stalin era. Why the special interest in a gold medal canoeist? A big clue could lie in the book Cesiunas was planning to write for publication in the West prior to the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The subject: an expose of how Soviet athletes use drugs in order to excel in international competitions...
...creates a new dilemma for Manila's archbishop, Jaime Cardinal Sin, who is already deeply worried about the growing number of priests and nuns who actively support the other, Communist insurgency. Politically conservative, the cardinal is nonetheless opposed to martial law. In an interview with TIME, Sin acknowledged, though with some apprehension, that he had heard of the Catholic guerrillas. Said he: "I don't believe they should do things that way because violence begets violence." The cardinal and other church leaders also fear that a witch hunt by the government could divide the church. Army commanders...
...each human life, on which there is little dispute in the American church. Such a philosophy underlies not only the Pope's stance on abortion but his attack, often in the same speeches, on racial discrimination, economic disparities, war, terrorism and "national security" as an excuse for oppression. Though a supposed contradiction between the "liberal" and "conservative" aspects of John Paul perplexed some observers last week, there is an organic connection between them. A man who has observed the survival of his church against heavy pressures in Poland is likely to believe that in the West, too, a disciplined...
...politically powerful Pro-Choice movement, which espouses total freedom to abort. But even among relatively liberal Catholics there is negligible backing for abortion on demand. In fact, no front-rank Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish or Muslim theologian has yet developed a serious argument for totally open abortion, though most countenance abortion in extreme cases, such as when the mother's life is threatened...