NEWS & VIEWS:
Deedy, John
NEWS & VIEWS VSCC A the Canal There's extremely favorable reaction in Panama to the U.S. Catholic Conference's statement urging Washington to negotiate a "new and just treaty" with Panama, one...
...has 14 military bases in the Canal Zone...
...Brig...
...Where they gave $10, now it's $5...
...We reflect the recession," he commented...
...One factor, according to a church newspaper, is lack of teachers with theological knowledge...
...Watergate, Yet Watergate continues to raise its ugly head...
...They continued to lessen: 170 in 1974 as against 219 in 1973...
...Between 1963 and 1973, there had been an 83 percent drop in the number of students for the priesthood...
...Brent Scowcroft-was present at the March 21, 1973 meeting at which President Nixon discussed Watergate hush money with Ehr-lichman, Dean and Halde-man, and assumed command of the coverup...
...In February, 1974, Secretary of State Kissinger and Panama's Foreign Minister Juan Antonio Tack signed an agreement in principle that the treaty of 1903 dealing with the Panama Canal would be abrogated and that the idea of "perpetuity" of U.S...
...Where people used to give $3 to the fund, now it's $2...
...Cranwell is being hit by declining enrollment, rising maintenance costs, and an inability to retire debts from a building program of the late '60s...
...a cheeky clown shouting encouragement to the priest...
...The statement, released in February by the Administrative Board of the USCC, dealt primarily with the canal, and sought to place the matter within an overall context of international social justice...
...a sequined showgirl piling her cape of fluffy turquoise marabou on the altar as part of the offertory . . . that's the way it was Palm Sunday at Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church in the nation's capital, 1975 A.D...
...A young woman in pink and gold spangled tights balancing on a pole 20 feet above the high altar...
...Carlos Lopez Quevedo, a member of the Panamanian team on renegotiations, told a press conference recently that progress was being made towards a settlement, but that no completion date could be predicted...
...received cash grants of $5,000...
...Rabbi Benjamin Brilliant of Pelham Parkway Jewish Center said that this year, for the first time, the center's "matzah fund"-the Passover fund for poor people- encountered budget problems...
...French seminarians now train at formation centers (an updated version of the traditional seminary) or in formation groups, which are situated within a university, factory, or rural-worker environment...
...Down is Jewish giving...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...Virginia officials recently reenacted Patrick Henry's "Give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death" speech at the Richmond Coliseum...
...In 1974, 1,317 were enrolled in formation centers, 118 in university-formation groups, and 73 in worker-formation groups...
...Never - stopped - 'em - before Department: The only Catholic college in England and Wales, Corpus Christi in London, is closing...
...How goes the Bicentennial...
...Dissolved is the Rein-hold Niebuhr Award, launched in 1972 to honor persons whose contributions' in the areas of social justice, public life or world affairs best exemplified the spirit of the theologian who taught at Union Theological Seminary...
...The program, "As it Happened," concluded that anyone present at the meeting was "well aware" of plans to pay E. Howard Hunt, a Watergate conspirator, $75,000 hush money...
...This left the effort 35.3 percent behind 1974 levels...
...Cranwell, the tony Jesuit prep school in Lenox, Mass., will close next September unless more than $1 million in cash and pledges is realized within three monihs...
...The crunch came when the sponsors failed to achieve foundation support...
...A columnist in Matutino, another daily, called the statement "one of the most solid documents ever issued in defense of Panama's claims over the canal...
...The U.S...
...French Seminarian* For the first time in 11 years, the number of aspirants to the priesthood in France has increased over the preceding year...
...JOHN DEEDYd up a circus troupe...
...They expected a crowd of 10,000...
...Recycled paper showed an increase of 8.4 percent during February, over January...
...as the following: "For peace in the world, which can come only with justice in the world, it is essential that we citizens of the United States, including our elected representatives, approach the Panama Canal issue with the same moral sensitivity we would to issues of justice within our own society...
...Omar Torrijos Herrera, head of Panama's military government, sent a personal letter to Archbishop Marcos McGrath of Panama thanking him for his efforts in explaining the Panamanian position to North Americans...
...There were 194 new aspirants in 1974, a jump of 43 from 1973...
...It said that Scowcroft did not actively participate in the discussion, but it added that Scowcroft would certainly have reported the discussion back to Kissinger, his chief...
...The Money Bind The money-pinch tightens on religious institutions and interests...
...4,000 showed...
...Odds and Ends -How goes the ecology fight (cont...
...troops would be allowed to remain in the Canal Zone, but stressed that Panama does not accept the legality of foreign military bases within its country...
...Offsetting these gains are ordination figures...
...Panama-America, a leading daily, editorialized that "the statement is very much in tune with the worldwide trend of rejecting colonialist enclaves in developing nations...
...Catholic Conference's statement urging Washington to negotiate a "new and just treaty" with Panama, one that recognizes "the fundamental rights of the people of Panama...
...control would be eliminated...
...Father James English arranged the liturgy according to the injunction in Matthew: "Unless you become like little children...
...Scowcroft denied being present at the meeting...
...He said that a number of U.S...
...Recipients (Father Theodore Hesburgh, Willy Brandt, Cesar Chavez, et al...
...Also, the number of those leaving before ordination decreased from 422 in 1973 to 205 in 1974...
...A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) program has charged that one of Henry Kissinger's top aides- Gen...
...He went out and signed up a circus troupe...
Vol. 102 • April 1975 • No. 3
