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...class struggle. Nonetheless, it was virtually certain that the delegates would approve the secretary's platform. The larger question was the reaction of other Italian political parties. Amintore Fanfani, the conservative secretary of the Christian Democratic Party, remains adamantly opposed. "If the Christian Democrats do not want to commit suicide," he said earlier this month, "they must say no to the compromesso storico tomorrow, as well as today." But left-wing Christian Democrats are not that opposed to the idea, nor are some socialists and members of the small but influential Republican Party...
Harris who ran a sort lived campaign for the presidency in 1971 was among the first Democratic candidates to commit himself to the race...
...Governing Boards of Harvard and the Radcliffe Trustees, both institutions will have finally taken the steps that make total corporate merger and the eventual equality of women inevitable. Progress toward these two goals will undoubtedly continue to be all too slow, but the Strauch proposals would at least commit Harvard to a program that must eventually have equality as its outcome...
Those adjectives triggered angry reaction when the news reached Chicago, where 250,000 Jews live. Jews charged in an avalanche of mail that he was selling out Israel. Letters in Chicago newspapers protested that Percy was asking Israel to "commit national suicide" and complained that the man responsible "for the murders at Munich and Ma'alot" cannot be termed "a moderate." Asked another letter: "Can Percy and others be bought by petrodollars?" Jewish leaders demanded that Percy return to Chicago and explain himself...
...Nazis. "God has reserved to himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it," Bonhoeffer wrote. "Even if [a person's] earthly life has become a torment for him, he must commit it intact to God's hand, from which it came...