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Pastoral letters are intended to advise Roman Catholics on moral courses of action, but are not binding rules. The bishops began working on the nuclear weapons letter in July 1981, at the request of Minnesota Archbishop John Roach, president of the N.C.C.B. "We see this as the major moral imperative of our time," Roach said last week...
This week, those four representatives sent a letter to University Hall petitioning for a guarantee of housing to transfer students, if the College does not fulfill the request, the letter states, it should at least provide resident House affiliation for transfer students, have Harvard Real Estate set aside a section of Peabody Terrace or the Soldiers Field apartments specifically for them, offer extra financial aid to the students to compensate for higher living costs, and improve security escort service between campus and off-campus rooms...
Callers to the plush Manhattan offices of De Lorean Motor Co. last week got only a computerized voice: "At the customer's request, 889-8900 has been temporarily disconnected...
...Rome, officials assured Gemayel that Italy would consider his request for an enlarged peace-keeping force...
More significant than Gemayel's request for funds was his proposal that the multinational peace-keeping force now serving in Beirut be enlarged so as to provide security throughout the country. The force is currently made up of about 1,200 U.S. Marines, some 1,600 French paratroopers and about 1,200 Italian soldiers. The American Marines are assigned to protect the area around Beirut International Airport. Unlike the French and Italian troops, they have seen little of the city because U.S. authorities have been determined to avoid incidents between the Marines and Lebanese civilians. The U.S. forces have...