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Despite its detailed prescriptions, the document is presented as a theological tract, suffused with "the good news which has come to us in the person of Jesus." It invokes a biblical vision of peace to reach its clear theme: "We must continually say no to the idea of nuclear war." It also draws on the theological theory of a "just war," first propounded in the 5th century by St. Augustine, who justified force to restrain those who would harm the innocent. Since Vatican II, some Catholics have rejected the just-war theory in favor of a pacifist option. But ironically...
...highest bid was a $227 million offer for a 5,700-acre tract submitted by a group of companies led by the Sohio Alaska Petroleum Co., an exploration subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, and including Mobil Corp. and British Petroleum Alaska Exploration. Their bid for that choice tract far outstripped the $129 million offered by Exxon and Marathon Oil, which was bought in March by U.S. Steel. Another group led by Texaco, which is seeking to increase its holdings in the Prudhoe Bay region, weighed in with the second-highest successful bid for a tract near the Sohio...
NESTLED in a small tract of land off Francis Ave. behind the Biology Labs and in front of the Divinity School sits Harvard's strangest building. Outside, in the shadow of the labs, a little mob of preschool children are running around a makeshift, fenced-in playground. "YARD RULES," a nearby sign reads: "Smacking the windows is not allowed. Sand stays in the sandbox and off the slide...
...group of Cambridgeport residents yesterday petitioned the City Council to save the last remaining major tract of undeveloped land in the city from virtually unrestricted...
...advertising rates. Saturday Review got the bulk of its readers through agencies, said a former editor, "because we wanted to K8 get consumer advertising, liquor, tobacco, automobiles, and the minimum circulation I for that seems to be about 450,000." Despite exceeding that goal, SR still failed to at tract sufficient advertising...