Word: memos
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...Please take a memo to L.B.J.: "Suggest you draft Buff Chandler for your poverty program...
...through the chill, rainy afternoon, the simple urn containing the ashes of Jean Moulin was on view at the Memo rial to the Victims of the German Labor Camps near Notre Dame Cathedral. Inside the cement crypt glimmered 200,000 crystal rods-one for each Frenchman who died in the Nazi camps...
...Lesson of Dallas. The longstanding controversy is picking up fresh impetus. Last week Jon O. Newman, U S Attorney for Connecticut, ordered his staff to tell reporters nothing that might prejudice a defendant's rights. "If in doubt," admonished Newman's memo keep silent." A New Jersey Supreme Court judge recently imposed a similar silence on every lawyer and policeman the state. In Rochester, NY two men awaiting trial on gambling charges won a temporary injunction against publication of their police records by a local newspaper. If such intelligence got out, they claimed, it would impair their chances...
When this became known, seven progressive cardinals, among them Albert Meyer of Chicago and Joseph Ritter of St. Louis, met at the Roman residence of Cologne's Joseph Cardinal Frings to draft a memo to the Pope ominously entitled Cum Magno Dolore (With Great Sorrow). It protested Felici's directives on the two declarations, as well as two other recent and repressive curial moves: a threat to end the council at the end of the current third session and an attempt to water down the passage in De Ecclesia defining the authority of the bishops over the church...
Cardinal Frings himself saw to it that the Pope got the memo, which was signed by 15 prelates. "You can be sure that it didn't go through the Secretary of State," said one priest. "There are other ways to get to the Pope-not many, but a few." One way that the cardinals had not counted on was a press leak. Acting on his own, Chilean Journalist Gaston Cruzat, head of the Latin American bishops' press panel, released the memo's contents to Rome reporters...