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...State of the Union message, President Carter reiterated that aid to Pakistan should be considered a "first order of business." But U.S. officials indicated that legislation to authorize a military aid package was sure to be delayed because Washington and Islamabad were far from agreement on its size and scope. The Pakistanis continued to belittle a U.S. proposal of $400 million in aid as "peanuts," in General Zia's phrase, and planned to submit a lengthy military shopping list costing in the billions...
...democratic movement. More than 65 prominent leaders have been arrested. They are publishers, novelists, ministers, candidates for election to the Central Government, and including Ms. Lu Hsiu-lien, a Harvard Law School alumni. Most are charged with sedition-punishable by from 15 years imprisonment up to death. The scope of arrest and the severity of the charges indicate the intention of the Taiwan government to use this opportunity to stamp out once and for all the democratic movement in Taiwan...
...Father Hans küng and Father Edward Schillebeeckx have learned, the more the Catholic Church changes, the more it remains the same. Vatican II was supposed to give scope to intellectual freedom, ecumenism and concern for human rights. Nevertheless, the marching orders for Catholics remain: Pray, pay, obey...
...position toward the Soviet Union has been consistent throughout the past three years. There have been no zigzags in it. We are willing to widen the scope of cooperation as far as the Soviet Union is prepared to go along with us; but we will compete as assertively as Soviet actions require...
...affairs as they were in the past. In the arts, the power elite is the artists themselves, who increasingly appear to be fashioning their works for their own aesthetic. Now an artist who exhibits individuality and originality is to be praised, and one who sets no limits to his scope of experimentation is to be treasured, but there is a thin line separating these qualities from arrogance toward and contempt for the audience, and that line is being crossed far too often these days...