Word: mu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each fresh stage of violence in the Middle East has been marked by mu ual vengeance for major provocations by each side. Last week was no exception. Both sides went beyond their now familiar tactics of artillery duels along the Suez Canal and Israeli air force sweeps of Arab fedayeen positions in the Jordan River valley. In a new in tensification of their struggle, the Arabs and Israelis launched a damaging string of commando assaults...
...diocese, and was a member of the Vatican's litur gical commission; a year ago, on the occasion of his 25th anniversary to the priesthood, Musante was given a title reserved for the privileged few: chaplain to the Pope. Last week the Vatican reluctantly admitted that Monsignor Mu sante had gone the way of so many of his fellow priests these days: after five months of consideration, Pope Paul VI had granted him permission to leave the priesthood and marry...
...University. By the time he was 31, he was vice-rector of Catholic University in Puerto Rico and a monsignor. But in 1960 he disagreed with the political intervention of Puerto Rico's Bishop James McManus when the bishop tried to forbid Catholics to vote for Governor Luis Muñoz Marin, who favored experimental birth control centers. The late Francis Cardinal Spellman, to whose diocese Illich was permanently attached, eased Illich home...
...slick, up-to-date U.S.-style methods never before tried in Puerto Rico. He spent $35,000 for a 250-page market research study and three polls of voter attitudes. What is more, he evidently benefited from growing support for Puerto Rican statehood. He has long favored statehood, which Muñ0z as adamantly opposes because it would mean higher U.S. taxes on Puerto Rico's still developing economy. Ferré campaigned for statehood in a 1967 plebiscite; his cause won a surprisingly high (39%) vote. While he insists that his election was "not a mandate for statehood...
...Governor-elect's most telling campaign issue, however, seemed to be Muñ0z. Ferré charged him with developing "one-man rule in the manner of a Latin American political boss." Even P.D.P. workers seemed to agree that Muñ0z, after long service and such distinguished accomplishments as gaining commonwealth status and strengthening the island economy with his much-publicized Operation Bootstrap, had finally become a liability. Said one: "The future of the P.D.P. rests in what we do with Muñ0z. If in 1972 he has the same power he enjoys...