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Members of the Society of Jesus are a breed apart, not only as the biggest and most influential men's order in the Roman Catholic Church but also as the group with the famed "fourth vow." All Catholic religious orders require members to take the three age-old oaths of poverty, chastity and obedience, but the Jesuits have a fourth vow all their own: special obedience to the Pope. This vow of fealty has become the focus of the recent struggle by more liberal Jesuits against conservatives in the Vatican and in the Society. Last week the delegates...
...Veto Vow. Many economists feel that considerably more stimulus is needed: perhaps a net tax reduction of $20 billion or even $25 billion (see story page 22). Congressional Democrats agree: they are likely to enact a tax rebate quickly, but a larger one than the President asked and in somewhat different form. The Democrats aim to give more of the rebate to lower-and middle-income taxpayers, partly for reasons of equity, partly because those people can be more reliably counted on to spend the money rather than put it in the bank. Congress might, for example, make the rebate...
City officials vow to be tough bargainers. "A new militancy on the part of municipal employees requires a new militancy on our part," says Donald H. Weinburg, personnel director for Washington, D.C. But there are doubts as to how successful the administrators will be. The AFL-CIO has melded 25 government unions into a new public-employees department, staffed by seasoned negotiators who will square off against city officials unaccustomed to hard bargaining. Says Carroll Harvey of Washington's Match Institution, an urban-planning agency: "City negotiators will be sitting down with some of the hardest-nosed pros...
...this reason, despite President Ford's vow to help fight inflation by cutting federal spending, that the Administration strongly backed the bill. Said Ford: "This legislation is significant in our fight against the excessive use of petroleum, in our economic battle and in our efforts to curb urban pollution and reduce congestion...
...tactic by spending 27 days on 27 different jobs, ranging from welding to performing a housewife's home work, in order to acquaint himself with voters' concerns. Harkin urged tougher anti-inflation measures, tax reform and better care for the elderly. He readily accepts Scherle's vow to run again in 1976, quipping: "I'll be glad to draw a crowd...