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There was a time not so long ago when few Roman Catholic priests dared request release from their vows. Fewer still were granted such a request. But since the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church has faced a flood of applications for "laicization," and agitation in favor of making the celibacy rule optional continues...
Murphy, who as Cook County's public guardian is responsible for legally incompetent wards of the state, responded with further charges. At week's end, he quoted a psychiatrist's memo that said the center was "virtually a human dog lab." At Murphy's request, a judge issued an order barring destruction of any records that might shed light on the case. Huggins, for his part, left no doubt about what he thought of the suit: "It stinks...
Federal mediator Gerard M. Gomez, who arranged the all-night negotiation sessions which resulted last week in the faculty contract, said yesterday that at the request of the clerical workers he had tried to arrange a meeting for them with the university trustees, but the trustees rejected such a meeting...
...British Foreign Office said yesterday it will send $160.000 worth of medical and other supplies to the region in response to an aid request from Yugoslavia...
...threat to rights that women won under the monarchy. Feminists do have reason to complain. Islamic law tolerates polygamy, so long as a husband treats his wives equally, and he can end a marriage simply by saying "I divorce thee" three times in front of witnesses. A woman may request a divorce under certain circumstances-for example, if she is mistreated or her husband is impotent. Women must dress modestly, and their inheritance is limited to a fraction of that of men. In defense of these sexist inequities, scholars of the Shari'a note that Islamic law was advanced...