Word: european
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Many in Britain and France would greet a U.S. decision to quit the war with a sense of "I told you so" satisfaction. But it is certainly not in the interest of America's European allies to see the U.S. humiliated and seriously weakened. There would be troubled questions about whether the U.S. would live up to its contractual defense commitments elsewhere. Many Germans, for example, feel that if the U.S. fails to hold South Viet Nam, as it once promised, it might also fail to come to the rescue of Berlin, as it has also promised. Actually, the fundamental...
Vorster has encouraged immigration from Europe at the rate of 50,000 a year to keep white South Africa from being totally submerged by blacks. The right-wingers complain, however, that the newcomers, mostly Southern European Catholics, will soon outnumber the Dutch-descended, Afrikaans-speaking Calvinists, who have increasingly dominated South African politics since the 1930s. In any event, Vorster's immigration effort seems doomed. Current projections indicate that by the year 2000, there will be 70 nonwhites to every white in South Africa. Even today, white South Africans total only 3,600,000, compared with 13 million blacks...
Agenda by Rome. Liberals among the bishops and theologians would like to broaden the discussions to include such divisive issues as birth control and priestly celibacy. There is little likelihood that they will get their way; Rome has set the agenda. But no such proscriptions bound the rebellious European Assembly of Priests, whose 80 delegates began six days of meetings last week...
Representing 3,500 of their colleagues in eight European nations, the priests boldly declared that the church was a "prisoner of the past" and announced that the theme of their gathering was "Free the church to free the world." One way to free the church, they suggested, was to establish an elected papacy and episcopate with limited terms of office. The priests also urged lay participation in bishops' elections, and called for the elimination of papal envoys to other nations. They also urged an end to compulsory celibacy vows and the institution of a married priesthood...
...aggressively against oil giants like Jersey Standard, Mobil and Texaco. As London's Financial Times commented last week: "The tragedy is that [U.S.] antitrust legislation was devised to encourage competition in the U.S. Yet the manner in which it is being implemented is having the effect of deterring European companies from entering the U.S. and so bringing with them a completely fresh wind of change...