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...their frustration, the farmers vow to continue to make life increasingly uncomfortable for officials on all levels of government, indeed for all Frenchmen, and little is being done to stop them. In the Limoges area last week, for example, peasants parked their tractors across a well-traveled tourist road; when motorists tried to turn back from the barrier, they found themselves trapped by more tractors in the opposite direction...
...their jobs. In Baltimore, the walkout by 3,000 trash collectors, jail guards, zookeepers and other city workers ended when the city and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees reached agreement on a new contract that made a mockery of Mayor William D. Schaefer's vow to hold pay increases to 6%. Garbage men's salaries will leap 20%%, from $3.42 an hour to $4.12, by July 1975, while policemen's will soar 22%, to a maximum of $ 13,500 a year...
...Almighty, everlasting God, I, John McLaughlin . . . moved with a desire of serving You, vow before the most sacred Virgin Mary, and the whole court of heaven, to Your divine majesty, perpetual poverty, chastity and obedience in the Society of Jesus...
When Nixon Aide John McLaughlin became a Jesuit in 1947, that traditional vow was strictly interpreted. Moreover, Jesuits lived in community in their own houses, wore only black, and worked mostly in missionary or teaching assignments. In recent years all that has been changing. Some members of the Society of Jesus rent their own apartments, wear business suits or blue jeans, and work at various professions, including politics...
...notes, is at "the geopolitical center of liberal thinking," and he points out that another Jesuit, Democratic Congressman Robert Drinan of Massachusetts (with whom he attended seminary), has made controversial public statements without being reprimanded. Other Jesuits maintain that it is not politics that is at issue but the vows of poverty and obedience. Drinan, they note, lives in a Jesuit house at Georgetown University, while McLaughlin rents an expensive apartment in the Watergate complex. ("Physical poverty," McLaughlin says, "does more spiritual harm than spiritual good. I do not see poverty as a vow of economy but as a vow...