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Oliver's suit naturally incurred the wrath of the Medical Association of Georgia. By no coincidence, the Georgia legislature passed a bill, which the Governor recently signed, forbidding anyone without an M.D. degree to put those initials after his name. Oliver charged that the legislation was lobbied through specifically to affect his pending case. Last week the three-judge federal court ruled in his favor; pending any appeal by the board, he is now Richard Oliver...
...typical Cannes display of bared bosoms and battling paparazzi clamoring in front of the theater. He confronted one giggling "starlet" posing for photographers in the doorway and slapped her resoundingly on the bottom. "Get on inside and see the film," he told her, and then turned his wrath on Cannes' organizer. "This is a degenerate festival," he said. "I remember when it was fine. Now it's cheap and disgusting...
...resolved itself. Alan's strong dependency on his faith brings inevitable crisis. His Belief is finally circumstantial: turned off when his father dies, turned back on when his own death threatens. His notions of a benevolent God of rescue is threatened by his belief in a God of Wrath or an apathetic Creator...
...Shortly after Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law last September, American Jesuit Vincent Cullen was clapped into jail. The reason: Cullen was a social action director on the island of Mindanao, where his labors on behalf of minorities and poor farmers in a land dispute provoked the wrath of local officials. Now Cullen has been released, but is under the custody of the Philippines provincial. While Cullen chafes, a fellow Jesuit, Father James Donelan, regularly offers Mass at Marcos' Malacanang Palace, and other Jesuits have given retreats for the President...
...specific target of their wrath was Defense Minister Michel Debré, whose new draft law ended student deferments for anyone over 21. The police reacted sternly to the protest, in some cases clubbing down the students, but the next day, not entirely by coincidence, Debré let it be known that he would not be a member of President Georges Pompidou's new Cabinet. The same day, it was announced that the controversial Loi Debré would be reconsidered...