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Paid for by the Mondale for President Committee, the ad is part of a concerted Democratic drive to make Falwell a campaign issue. Mondale dropped the Fundamentalist preacher's name three times during the debate with President Reagan, and Running Mate Geraldine Ferraro picked up the refrain when she squared off with Vice President George Bush. Says a Mondale aide: "Jerry Falwell is a no-risk whipping...
...order to protect the process of learning and discovery, Universities must maintain a reasonable autonomy in the conduct of their internal affairs. They must persuade the outside would to refrain form exerting pressure that would limit the freedom of their members to speak and publish as they choose. They must also preserve the freedom to select the best political activities and to set their own policies without external control save by the government in behalf of established public ends...
...Monday, the President was to deliver a major address before the General Assembly, his third appearance at the U.N. Though Reagan planned to touch on a number of world trouble spots, White House aides expected him to refrain from finger pointing and instead express confidence that progress can be achieved through good-faith negotiations. The second half of his speech was to be devoted to U.S.-Soviet relations. Reagan planned to open this section by reasserting his commitment to negotiation rather than confrontation as a means of settling disputes. He was expected to list three short-term U.S. goals...
...these Catholics, including a few theologians, the primary questions are: When is a fetus a person, and how do we know it? The implication, that there may be a brief period during which abortion is licit, is not new in the church, though it has been a minor refrain in Catholic theology and explicitly rejected many times by the Vatican. An influential 17th century theologian named Torreblanca taught that before the fetus is animated by the soul, a woman may have an abortion if she is in danger of death or in danger of losing her reputation. Thomas Aquinas...
...Western world had a different opinion of who was responsible. The left-of-center Rome daily La Repubblica summed up the reaction in the bold headline THE HAWKS OF MOSCOW HAVE WON! The West German tabloid Bild carried a similar refrain: HONECKER, NYET! Said a top-ranking U.S. official: "This has got to impress everyone in the East bloc. They all want more autonomy, but the message from Moscow is that there are limits...