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...Vatican last week announced that all Catholic priests would henceforth be asked to make an annual public affirmation of their vows of celibacy and obedience. The day chosen for this oath was Holy Thursday?the feast day that, in Roman Catholic theology, commemorates Christ's founding of the priesthood. Obliquely, the decree was yet another negative answer from Rome to the Dutch Pastoral Council (TIME, Jan. 19), which last month advocated optional celibacy for priests. On a deeper level, the proposal was a nervous, defensive papal response to a more enduring crisis: the most notable mass defection of priests...
...advice, the Moscow City Soviet (akin to a city council) adopted tough ordinances banning the sale of booze in the vicinity of industrial sites, schools and recreation areas. Where once a tippler could pick up a bottle at countless corner groceries and even special kiosks along major streets, henceforth only special liquor outlets, supermarkets and department stores will be permitted to sell the stuff. Other Soviet cities can be expected to follow Moscow's lead, and a national law is likely to be enacted shortly...
...growing tendency to search among newsmen's private material for possible trial evidence (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week, after mounting indignation from the news media, the Administration decided that some of its more eager officials had gone too far. Sounding slightly embarrassed, Attorney General John Mitchell announced that henceforth "no subpoenas will be issued to the press without a good-faith attempt by the department to reach a compromise acceptable to both parties...
Nick Harris has moved the Kings Tavern, Men's Bar, right down into the basement. Henceforth, it will be called simply "Kings" and it will have queens too, youthful, longhaired lovely young things along with earnest and jolly bearded beer drinkers, an entirely new crowd and altogether foreign to the tastes of the old-timers...
...this letter, the substance of which the Committee is today making public, the Committee advises you and all others that henceforth they should expect that complaints may be heard and disciplinary action may follow in cases involving the persistent, sustained, loud, and proximate shouting or chanting at members of the University or in cases otherwise involving the subjection of individuals to intense personal harassment. Whether those complaints should be heard by the appropriate Administrative Board instead of this Committee or whether this Committee should have its mandate clarified in this respect by the Faculty is a matter for future determination...