Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...December, well before the U.N. force could be in place. Since SWAPO refuses to participate in such an election, the biracial Democratic Turnalle Alliance, which South Africa created and still dominates, would be virtually assured of victory. Third World nations regard such a voting arrangement as worthless-a view increasingly shared in the West. "You don't try to rig an election or rush it," said British Foreign Secretary David Owen. Botha's angry reply, reportedly delivered in a tense negotiating session: "Don't you try to lecture me about democracy...
...weather was dismal in Tenerife that day, with low-scudding clouds and fog sharply reducing visibility. From the western end of the strip, shrouded from the view of both the control tower and the KLM crew, Pan Am Captain Victor Grubbs was nosing his 747 through the mist toward the Dutch plane. Twice Grubbs radioed the tower, on a frequency shared by KLM, that he was still on the runway...
Does Wojtyla's philosophy of the individual's inalienable right of self-determination mean that he will welcome the explorations of liberal theologians and take a tolerant view toward individual conscience on knotty matters that perplex Catholics? Not necessarily. As Harvard Divinity School's George Williams sees it, Wojtyla's philosophy of individual self-determination permits man to challenge the totalitarian state as in Nazism, or economic determinism as in Communism. But, says Williams, that does not necessarily mean that man has "self-determination against...
...birth-control question, Wojtyla was on record against all artificial methods in his book Love and Responsibility (1960) before Paul VI took the same position in his much attacked Humanae Vitae encyclical of 1968. But the book also emphasized sexual pleasure for married couples ?an advanced view for a pre-Vatican II archbishop. Wojtyla has also taken an uncompromising stand against liberalized abortion, yet another issue on which he opposes Poland's Communist regime...
Businessmen tend to view the guidelines as an attack on the symptoms rather than the causes of inflation. Shearon Harris, chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sent Carter a six-page letter sarcastically suggesting that the Administration apply guidelines not to wages and prices but to its own actions, "such as a 7% limit on the increase in federal taxes, a 5¾% [ceiling on the] increase in overall federal spending and a freeze on net new regulations." William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate banking committee, said last week that guidelines may have "some value" but "there...