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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...note of hardhat solidarity with the nation's rulers was sounded often. WE SUPPORT NIXON AND AGNEW, One sign read; GOD BLESS THE ESTABLISHMENT. The strange bedfellowship was not lost on Peter Brennan. head of Greater New York's Building and Construction Trades Council. "We're supporting the President and the country," said Brennan, "not because he's for labor, because he isn't, but because he's our President, and we're hoping that he's right." A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany drew a similar distinction: he backed Nixon on Cambodia...
...students at Kent State still hung in the air last week. In quick succession in two Southern cities, eight blacks were killed by policemen. Two were students in Jackson, Miss. Six died in the streets of Augusta, Ga., amid an orgy of burning and looting. Blacks were quick to note that these deaths failed to draw the headlines or rouse the nation's conscience on the scale of the Kent State killings, and most were bitter. One explanation is that there is a limit to a nation's ability to sustain outrage. And in Augusta, the issue...
...east, and friendly soldiers on shore occasionally shot flares into the darkness over the boat. By five the next morning, a pink sunrise was poking over the treetops at Hong Ngu, a small river town in South Viet Nam. It was a big occasion, but the refugees took note of it only by doing what Asians do every day at sunrise. Husbands packed up the night's bedding. A woman washed clothes with a UPI naked, screaming baby clutching at her blouse. Two children had been born during the 20-hour trip...
...Catholic theologians as a continuity of doctrine and Christian commitment from one generation to another within the church community -not as a sort of ecclesiastical relay race, with the baton passing from bishop to bishop and the whole team disqualified if someone drops it. Ordination by a bishop, critics note, was not always required even among Catholics. In the early Christian churches and even in medieval times, as Benedictine Theologian Kilian McDonnell points out in the current issue of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, "orders" were sometimes conferred by another priest or even by the lay elders of the community...
...first module. The PA system clicked on overhead and in an instant the entire class was on its feet, facing the flag. After that, we all settled back to listen to Leslie's oral report on Greek mythology. Leslie was one of the bigger boys and hardly used his note cards...