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Attending a retreat with a group of priests in Youngstown last week, Malone told TIME, "What we need now is not to turn aside from Vatican II teaching but to grasp it with new enthusiasm and to pursue its implementation with new vigor." Since the synod will provide only two weeks to do that, Malone's report also asserted, it might be time for a special U.S. synod to deal with Vatican II. Though the U.S. bishops meet briefly once or twice a year, their last extended national council was in 1884. The U.S. bishops' conference and the Vatican have...
...city's sediment foundation. Many tall buildings in the densely populated metropolis may not have been built to rigid quake- resistant standards. Indeed, some turned out to be just the right height to vibrate or resonate sympathetically with the frequency of the seismic waves, thus shaking with greater vigor than other buildings...
...been at times fascinated, at times saddened by what I have witnessed," says Aikman. "For me, the most exciting aspect of China's modernization, despite all the fits and starts, is the intellectual reawakening that has been bubbling away below the surface. It is real testimony to the inherent vigor of the Chinese sense of self...
...Henry Grunwald, TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan for a formal interview. Last week, at the same long Kremlin table, aided by the same translator, the same three editors became the first Western newsmen to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev. What was new was the vigor and directness of the host. "Instead of delay, there was a definite aura of efficiency," said Cave. "The session was to begin at 3 p.m. It did, on the dot. And the answers we got were as disciplined as the timing...
...Middle East, as we support Israel. America has been, and always will be, on the side of nations that prize freedom. The Shiites are simply out to destroy those nations in any way possible for their own fanatical reasons. The Shiites desperately need the publicity and the vigor that hostage-taking provides to gain power, power which has been and would continue to be directed against Americans. The Shiites and those who support them are waging a war against the U.S. and our solid allies. They are bent on the destruction of the free world, a free world Israel represents...