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After years of stalling, Congress finally voted Alaska to statehood-but it left its job half done by refusing to recognize the equally valid credentials of Hawaii...
...installed them in key posts. "Patriotic Priest" Chang Shih-liang, for one, has run the Shanghai diocese since the jailing of Shanghai's Bishop Kung Pinmei in 1955, goes about dressed in full bishop's regalia, including mitre. Ho's most recent refinement is to force valid bishops to consecrate Communist bishops, thereby attempting to maintain Roman Catholic validity. With liturgically correct bootleg rites, he has created ten "progressive" bishops, is planning consecrations for Nanking, Suchow and Hanchow, will soon appoint new bishops for Canton and Shanghai. When Bishop Li Tao-nan of Puichi was first ordered...
Such consecrations are valid because by definition a bishop has the power to create other bishops-a power which, in Catholic doctrine, is transmitted in unbroken line from the apostles themselves. But no bishop may exert jurisdiction over a diocese without specific appointment from Rome. China's new "progressive" bishops are therefore subject to excommunication...
...tried to beat the House subcommittee to the punch by admitting to reporters that his gifts, including hotel expenses of more than $2,000, a vicuña coat and an Oriental rug to Sherman Adams, had been listed as tax deductible by Goldfine companies-i.e., legally valid if some "ordinary and necessary" benefit or advantage flowed to Goldfine businesses from the expenditure...
...Yugoslav government denounced the Russian action as an "entirely unilateral cancellation of valid economic agreements, in glaring contradiction with established standards of international relations," and hinted that it might be "compelled" to demand damages for breach of contract. But its only real recourse was to let the world see what a "selfless sharing" benefactor Moscow...