NEWS & VIEWS:

...It has been made progressively clear to me' over the past three years," he said, "that as a priest I am not free to teach theology in any Roman Catholic establishment in this country...

...The aver-age pilgrim is from the lower-middle class or the rural world, is looking for modest lodgings, and taking pains not to spend too much money...

...Moderately priced hotels have been turning people away from the beginning of spring, according to Informa-tions Catholiques Interna-tionales, but the deluxe hotels -a half-dozen could be cited, having from 200 to 700 rooms-have remained half empty...

...I take a lot of satisfaction in oppos-ing all the forces that would like to put us out of busi-ness...

...Thirteen Colorado con-struction unions have been on strike against Coors since 1968 because of the com-pany's steady expansion of its brewery facilities with non-union labor...

...Troubled Innkeepers The Holy Year isn't doing for Rome's spate of new de-luxe hotels what their pro-moters obviously expected...

...And the Federal Trade Commission several months ago socked the company with charges of restraint of trade, price fixing and exclu-sive dealing, among other counts...

...Carl Mclntire, the conservative-fundamental-ist preacher...

...By 1990, there will be only three major [brewing] companies left," William Coors, president and chair-man of the board remarked to the Wall Street Journal in 1973, "and we intend to be one of them...

...This policy is intended to protect the traditional tourist industry against competition from religious orders...

...The Coors philosophy is simple...

...They'll make porcelain ele-phants, vases and other items "that Americans love so Well...

...NEWS& VIEWS Troubled Detente The Economist for July 5 ticks off Vatican diplomatic gains in Communist coun-tries, and observes that the red carpet awaits the Pope's emissaries in most red na-tions these days...

...This is a vital matter for the Pope, comments The Economist, for he is said to regard the Catholic Church in Eastern Europe as "the true growth point of the Christianity of the future...

...In an area where Chicano unemployment is twice that of the "white" popula-tion, less than 2 percent of the brewery's several thou-sand workers are Chicano...

...A complicating factor for the Vatican in all of this is the Church's institutional weakening in traditional strongholds...

...The Economist notes, for instance, newly emerged "revolutionary ten-dencies from within" in Italy, Spain, Portugal and various Latin American countries, and the fact that "ever fewer people are going to church" in so-called Catholic coun-tries...

...He's bringing some 40 Vietnamese refugees to Flor-ida to people the village...

...Unhappy over this "en-croachment," the business community has protested to civil authorities, who, in turn, have insisted that the reli-gious institutions meet high safety standards and also that they obtain hotel licenses before accepting paying guests...

...Mclntire is plan-ning a "Vietnamese village" as a new tourist attraction at his complex in Cape Canaveral...

...If anyone was going to one-up John Wayne, it had to be Rev...

...The secularized West" is alleged to have been "virtu-ally written off" by the Pope...

...The company goes serenely along, supporting right-wing causes, law-and-order agen-cies (one Coors brother do-nated a helicopter to the Denver Police Department in 1970), and patriotic founda-tions...

...Cooling on Coors That cold Coors isn't re-freshing all who can get it...

...The explanation apparently rests in the nature of the Holy Year visitor...

...Local 888's grievance has to do with lost contracts, dis-puted NLRB elections, and an anti-union drive coordi-nated out of company head-quarters in Golden...

...Trouble of this sort is old brew to Coors...

...Such phenomena, says The Economist, may cause Communist countries to "wonder why they should negotiate with a partner so manifestly weak...

...However, The Econ-omist remarks, "slowly but surely, the Vatican and most of the world's Communist governments seem to be get-ting onto the same wave-length...

...The Chicano boycott de-rives from the company's al-legedly racist hiring practices at its Golden, Colo., brewery...

...It threatens to have a boome-rang effect, however: for the religious institutions which have obtained licenses will appear next year in the of-ficial guide of classified ho-tels, with prices defying all competition...

...To accommodate this pil-grim, Peregrinatio Romana, the Vatican's Holy Year tour-ist bureau, has requisitioned a number of religious insti-tutions and is offering some 7,600 beds at from $9 to $10 a night, thus meeting more than half the demand of those seeking moderately priced rooms...

...Odda and Ends -Resigning the priesthood is Father Hubert Richards, 53, British theologian, aca-demic and author...

...It's got a new ally in North-ern California Local 888 of the Teamsters Union...

...There are exceptions, of course, notably China and Albania...

...JOHN DEEDY...

...It will be just "like one our boys went into during the war," said Mcln-tire...

...Yet the big question still remains to be answered, in the opinion of the British weekly...

...In other words, "why make concessions which may later prove to have been un-necessary...

...Specifically, "can the policy of small tactical con-cessions by both sides-very small ones so far by the Communist side-be success-fully translated into more comprehensive deals...

...The Chicano community in the West had had a nine-year boycott against the beer...

...Richards had re-signed in 1972 as head of Corpus Christi College charg-ing interference by Cardinal Heenan in academic free-dom...