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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...violence. The letter, which was signed by all of the country's 98 bishops, warned that incitement to revolutionary violence is "criminally irresponsible." But the bishops also lashed out at government corruption and violations of human rights, and declared that in the face of "manifest, longstanding tyranny," the use of force "is not absolutely ruled out." This was a thinly veiled warning that church leaders might one day no longer condemn open rebellion against the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos...
...other things, the Old Testament command to "be fruitful and multiply" and the need to justify marriage to early Christians in the face of attacks by otherworldly heretics. But contraception did not become a serious issue until the 20th century, when improved techniques-and laxer morals-led to widespread use of birth control devices. By 1930 the Anglican Church hierarchy at the Lambeth Conference reluctantly accepted birth control. Reacting to this, Pope Pius XI issued his encyclical Casti Conubii (On Chaste Marriage), declaring that "the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of children. Those...
Paul ruled out any means-before, during or after the conjugal sex act-that would render procreation impossible. The widening use of artifical methods, he added, would encourage lower standards of sexual morality. John Paul II has held a slightly different view of the reasons against contraception. Only the openness to possible parenthood, he has written, puts a sexual relationship on a "genuinely personal level." To exclude the possibility of children, he argued, limits the relationship to the pursuit of sensual pleasure. John Paul unequivocally endorsed Humanae Vitae during his U.S. trip. Opinion polls in recent years have repeatedly shown...
...drew up lists of inventions that the world needed, or at least would buy, and set out to produce them. In the case of electric light, gas was already lighting homes, and electric arc lights were illuminating streets and stores-though much too brilliantly, and expensively, for general use. The need, Edison saw, was for some other form of electric illumination that would provide a steadier and, above all, cheaper glow than...