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...Vatican's inflexibility with respect to altering long-held dogmas should surprise no one. The whole Ecumenical movement has never resulted in any substantial changes, only in talk about changes. The rulings that the Mass may be sung in English, that it isn't a sin to eat meat on Friday, and that the Jews didn't kill Christ after all, are hardly of major importance. On all the significant issues-birth control, divorce, abortion, censorship -the church hasn't budged an inch...
FROM the very outset of the U.S.-North Vietnamese negotiations in Paris four months ago, the main obstacle to progress has been the issue of the continued bombing of part of North Viet Nam. Hanoi's representatives have adamantly clung to their long-held demand that the U.S. must stop bombing their territory before anything else can be discussed. The U.S. has persistently and unsuccessfully asked for assurances that Hanoi will reciprocate with some kind of de-escalation of its own once the bombing is stopped. No such assurances have been forthcoming. The result is that the talks have...
Significantly, the heart received least attention from the thanatologists. Both the difficulty and the urgency of their task resulted largely from the fact that a heart-lung machine can keep major parts of a body "alive" long after effective death. The long-held notion that death can be pinpointed in time, four or five minutes after heart action and breathing have stopped, is erroneous, said Cleveland's Dr. Charles L. Hudson, principal U.S. delegate in Sydney...
...Tasteless nonsense," "blatant rubbish," "a great big bore," howled the London critics. Worse yet, many viewers got the feeling that perhaps fame had at last gone to the Beatles' heads. Concluded the Daily Express: "The whole boring saga confirmed a long-held suspicion that the Beatles are four rather pleasant young men who have made so much money that they can apparently afford to be contemptuous of the public." In reply, Paul could only say: "Aren't we entitled to have a flop? Was the film really so bad compared with the rest of the Christmas...
...carpet, waiting to be introduced, stood the Cambodian court, the government elite, and the diplomatic corps, including representatives of many Communist countries. For Jacqueline Kennedy, fulfilling a long-held dream of visiting the fabled ruins of Angkor, there must also have been a sense of deja vu. Her reception in Cambodia rivaled any she had received when she was the wife of the President of the United States...