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...Road. With the gold cross of the Supreme Order of Christ hanging around his neck, De Gaulle took the occasion of his visit to Rome to call on Pope Paul VI. The Pope pleased De Gaulle by declaring that "history will tell about his unequaled services to his country." De Gaulle praised the Pope for his efforts for world peace, warned that "peace has never been more blindly menaced." When the time came for a benediction, it was touch and go whether the Pope or De Gaulle would grant the blessing...
Nonetheless last week, on its 50th anniversary, Pope Paul VI became the first Roman Catholic pontiff to visit the shrine of Fátima. The "spiritual motive" of his fourth papal journey outside Italy,* Paul announced, was to seek Mary's "intercession in favor of the peace of the church and of the world." The Vatican denied suggestions that the Pope was also making amends to Portugal for his visit to India following its conquest of Portuguese Goa, insisting that the trip would be "completely private" and "rapidissimo." Despite the disclaimer, the Portuguese were ecstatic...
...Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provided the first hope that the situation would improve. It paved the way for the U.S. Office of Education to require real progress in desegregation from school districts receiving federal aid, What integration there has been in Southern schools has virtually all come about since the Office of Education began laying down guidelines for school integration; the guidelines now require annual percentage increases in the number of Negroes attending formerly all-white schools...
Hardly had the pontifical commission on birth control submitted its findings to Pope Paul VI last year when word was passed that most of the commission's members had recommended abolishing the Roman Catholic Church's ban on contraception. Most people took it for granted that the news leak was an effort to pressure the Pope into siding with the majority-and soon. But the pressure seems to have had no noticeable effect; Paul has still to announce his long-awaited decision. Last week, in what was viewed as another evident attempt to hasten a liberal papal ruling...
...image throughout the world as a blow from the daffodils and roses that the marchers carried in gaudy abundance. In an emotional speech before the League of Jewish Women in Atlanta last week, Vice President Humphrey-just back from two weeks in Europe-quoted Pope Paul VI as telling him: "America's moral power is being eroded by the manner in which your country is being interpreted in the eyes of the world." With tears welling in his own eyes, the Vice President said: "America needs to tell the world of the lives it is saving. We need...