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...more interested in talking to one another than to the electorate. Last week's primary ended the in-group dialogue and gave hope of a lively, hard-fought campaign in a city whose smothering problems challenge every ounce of brain and muscle its next mayor can muster...
...third time in nine weeks, King Constantine named a new Premier to replace ousted George Papandreou. This time it almost looked as though his man could muster enough votes to stay in office. Or almost enough. The man was Stephan Stephanopoulos, 66, like his two predecessors a renegade from George Papandreou's Center Union Party, and, in fact, former Deputy Premier in Papandreou's own Cabinet. Forming a "symbolic coalition" Cabinet of "national emergency," Stephanopoulos claimed the backing of 150 out of 300 Deputies in Parliament-and predicted that before a vote of confidence is taken this week...
When George Baker first got into the God game back in 1907, the pantheon was packed. What with such ranking deities as Father Obey, Elijah of the Fiery Chariot, St. John the Vine, and Joe World, among many others, the heavenly host could hardly muster enough worshipers to go around. So George, an itinerant lawn mower and hedge clipper from Georgia, settled for an apprentice apostleship - a "God in the Sonship Degree" - with Father Jehovia, a former Pittsburgh steelworker who had a cult in Baltimore...
...difficult for many a V.C. trooper. "It is terrible and miserable," wrote one Red soldier killed at Due Co before he could mail his latest letter. "Airplanes bomb and strafe, and we can do nothing about it. The fighting situation is tough, too serious and difficult. Sometimes we can muster only one platoon for military operations. I am sick almost every day with stomach pains. Drugs are low. Our rice turns sour. We would like the battalion commander to handle this problem. Give my regards to the battalion commander...
More Forgiveness. So far, most Roman Catholic bishops are cool to the idea of de-emphasizing private confession, although advocates of general confession can muster good arguments for their cause. Brother Philip believes that general confession would make sacramental forgiveness more readily available to more people, bring back to Communion Catholics who for one reason or another cannot or will not confess to a priest. General confession, moreover, would have special value in such countries as Brazil, where millions of rural Catholics see a priest no more than once a month; for many, private confession is impossible. In fact, general...