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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Oct 08, 1968

Page

5

Priests Split Over Pope on Birth Control Survey

A Notre Dame study of about 1500 U S diocesan priests finds 51 percent viewed artificial contraception as permissible before Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae and 49 percent after. Older priests oppose. younger favor. overall 2 to 4 percent changed minds.

U.S New York Paul Center For the Study of Man University of Notre Dame National Catholic Reporter America Jesuits Donald Barrett Notre Dame mid-Atlantic Pacific Coast

Vision of Virgin Mary Fails as 20000 Pack St Bruno Field

Crowds from Canada the United States flocked to St Bruno Quebec hoping for a Marian apparition. The expected 7:30 to 9 p.m. showing did not occur though some crippled individuals claimed glimpses. White Berets led pilgrims to the muddy field as hospitals treated more than 100 in distress and thousands waited in drizzle for a sign.

ST. Bruno Que UPI Canada United States Montreal White Berets California St. John Ambulance Corps St. Lawrence River

Navy Accepts Defective Steel for Sub Hulls Says Testing Firm Chief

Raymond G. Perelman of Penn Galvanizing charged the Navy accepts lamination defective steel for submarine hulls despite high quality standards. He cited testing shifts from scanning to static methods and alleged mills self-judge plate quality while probes found no link to recent submarine losses.

Navy Philadelphia Raymond G. Perelman Penn Galvanizing Co Perelman Penn Galvanizing

Organized crime seen less threatening than activist crimes

A UPI report notes a Social Research Inc survey for Federal Sign and Signal Corp. finds Americans worry more about activist or emotional crimes than organized crime. 28 percent say crime is up locally, 28 percent say down, 24 percent unchanged, 20 percent don’t know. many fear rising national violence.

Chicago UPI Social Research Inc Federal Sign and Signal Corp Blue Island Ill

Threats of anarchy worry readers in poll survey

A 18th century survey notes that crime covers many acts and that the fear of anarchy grows when law and order appear to degrade. The report highlights public concern over societal stability and vigilantism as a response to perceived breakdowns.

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