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‘erérhonial post ‘orto: “inetall!'one’. ee ‘supporters as,
‘Iresident is viewed aS one : of the most telling signs,

- What’s w wrong awit schools giving equal classroom time to:

~ they believe’ Adam was created from dust and Eve from one
of his ribs and that Noah somehow found space on the Ark

; ay for the more than ‘one million spécies living today..
McGowan makes no pretence at being even-handed i in the _
: debate _ he’ Sa Aedicated’ pre-evolutionist.

in denounces ¢

7 _. “The majority of Christions,”” says McGowan, w who alsa i into existence. “And: it’ arabe
... both sides of the ceation-evolution debate? Plenty, says. ~ associate professor- of zoology at University ‘of: ‘Toronto, ,
boat : Chiris ‘McGowan, ‘curator ‘of. vertebrate paleontology. at-
— ‘Toronto’ 3 Royal Ontario Miseum, who has just published a’
.. book on the subject.
McGowan says ereatiopisra has’no: business in science ° .
classrooms: because It. is- only “good old-fashioned ‘fin-
damentalist religion, all spruced up with ‘scientific ter-.
| minology and ideas to Idok like science.”
In fact, McGowan argues, the creationists are not ever’
orthodox Christians. They, interpret the Bible so literally

regard the Book. of Genesis as a collection. of parables ..
- which illustrate the point ttat there Is a God, ‘a God wie has -
a dominion over the world.” " :

"Creationists, however, argue ‘hat those who don't Bares
with them must be against both them and Ged. The trath,
_ McGowan believes, 1s that “they are as unorthodox. in thelr
‘theology as they are.int their science.” :"\.*-
~McGowan’s book, In the Beginning ....A Scientist Shaws

‘Why the Creationists are Wrong, was. written to. prowide |

.. practical arnmunition ta ~ school: boards. teachers | and
: parents fighting the battle over creationism.

Catholic women become angry |

OTTAWA (cP). _ Many Catholic women are angry, hurt
and leaving the ° ‘church because ‘they are barred: from

becoming priests, says a atudy € commissioned by Canada's
we Catholic. bishops... wim,
. " WMake no mistake,” one woman wrote. “I an not ao
oo ~fallen-away Catholic; I- chose, deliberately, to walk away --
“from an institution which has ceased to have relevance in ;
“my life." = eH

The study, whieh may be presented to the Pope in

October, was recently completed by. the Bishops’ Com- a

mittee on the Role of Wonien in the Church:
- It includes personal testimonies of those who haye left or

remain unhappy church members. The stories express the
frustration, . alienation and pain of women weary of doing:

“periferal” jobs. and who want more * meaningful and:

is

Others were discouraged by the: church’ 8 marriage an-

" nulmetit process and its opposition bo. birth ‘control.

‘DENYING DIGNITY’.

‘Mayor Marion Dewar wrote that by’ denying women ‘the
right to contraception, “the church was denying us the right
to human dignity." -

“If the church continues to deprive women of the choice .

“ether or-not to bear their children; {it} must also work

. wensure that the support systems are in place” to- permit a

fet PEOPLE

“When Joseph and ‘Agnes Morfseau awoke Saturday’ -

morning, they found their Toronto home had been
decorated in the dead of night — with baby bootees, , baby

-clothes and a sign. .

The festooning was compliments of friends who know that
where the Moriseaus come from in France, it is a

traditional, way of marking weddings and births. The

couple's son, Oliver, was born May 26.

Prince Edward; youngest of the Queen’ | four ‘children,

. dated the. 16-year-old daughter of a garbage collector
_ during the two terms he spent teaching school - jn New
‘Zealand, News.of the World says, :. -°-

“I'm more than a little upset he’s-gone,” April Phillips
for the London-based Sunday newspaper. * “We've
veral times and I'm very fond of him. Pm not

_. Edward, 119, held a- ‘temporary { teaching post ata co-ed :

prep sch le srth island. The report said

Edward niet Phillips when ‘th ty had roles in a school play.
Tt quote

“April a us Edward insisted he didn't want another
Andy and Koo Stark situation,” the pupil said, referring to
Edward's brother’s friendship with a U. S. soft-porn actress. ,

In his first feature magazine article since switching’ from

“ballet to writing, U.S. President Ronald Reagan's son, Ron,
‘takes on a familiar subject — actor Jimmy Stewart. ,
“Since my early childhood, Stewart has inhabited the

periphery of my world, never exactly Uncle Jiminy, but one

of those old family friends I saw occasionally during the a

holidays and ‘whose name crops up now and. again at the
dinner table,” young Reagan writes in a’ new magazine,

’ TheMovies, which comes out June 20. '

’ “I'm nervously’ aware of being trapped in an awkward

limbo between an. pld acquaintance and invading jour-*
nalist.’’-

does not end at birth.”
The 11-member cominittee, formed a year ago, consists
of two bishops and nine women from aeoss Canada,
Catholic women, ercouraged by. media: reports and

‘ehurch . publications . to. voice - their ‘concerns, - gave ‘an |

“overwhelming” response. The committee received « 409

“letters, by last April, Tepresenting ahout 1,000 women, most

_ of whom kept their names confidential. .
~“Tt_was the first. time many had been’ asked how they

. feel?" said University . of Ottawa theologian Elisabeth

Lacelle.

- Laeelle, a member of the committee; said
these ate things women couldn't speak about :10 years ago.
‘WOMEN MORE CONFIDENT . aw,

: The liberation. women have felt has “given them con:

fidence to speak out in the religious world, but some are still 7

‘nervous to criticize the church,” she. said.

“Our aim is to have women become equal partners with”
- men‘on all Jevels,”: she said. ““We're‘not interested in just

making recommendations. We want them to become ac:

- tions and to take them up ourselves,"

The Catholic Church’s new code. of canon law allows lay

‘women to do everything their male counterparts do, in-

cluding perform baptism and preach the. sermon. :
' But because they cannot be ordained priests, “they.
cannot exercise authority in the church,” Lacelle said.

“They are excluded from making deciaieny on the whale life :

“of the church.” -.-

The committee's. report: ‘said women’ 5 ecclesiastical
liberation continues “to be treated as ‘a marginal concern
by the leadership. of the Catholic Church.” -

The committee has one year to implement an action nian

-that includes organizing women at - parish level ‘znd |

distributing a kit-to. help in their discussions.

If the report is approved by Canadian bishops at their |
‘ annual meeting next fall, the bishops’ delégation to: mext
; October’ Ss synod i in Rome would present it to the Pope.

Foot steps down

LONDON (AP) — Lett. -winger Neil Kinnock, a Welshman .
- ‘with no governnment' experience but: broad union Support, °
“emerged today as the early favorite to replace PMichae)

Foot-as leader of ' the battered Labor party...

Minister. Margaret. Thatcher's Conservatives. °

.-Feot has received much-of the blame for Labor's worst . :.
‘defeat in 60 years!"He has been faulted -for falling to unite’
-‘the party sizice becoming leader in 1990 and ‘his popularity
‘rating in public: opinion polls has dropped to 20 per cent,

_ Kinnock, the on of a laborer and former Labor education .

” spokesman; quickly drew wide backing in the leadership
: face from the unions than the two other major contendérs J.
— Roy Hattersley, 50, and Peter:Shore, 49). both former oo

cabinet ministers.

“(Kinngck) ‘has dash, sparkle, imagination, a persuasive
’ "quality and youth, " paid Clive Jenkins, general secretary of
: the Association of: Technical, Scientitic and Manageriat

Staffs. .
Kinnock, 4, is supported by Britian’ s biggest union, the

1.7-milllon ‘member Transport and General (Workers
Union."

‘He. also haa support from communications workers and :

firefighters, ‘and can expect support from miners, ‘public

employees and railwaytien, ©. | a
'. New leadership election rules will be used for the first

time at the party’s, October conference and will Rive unions |
40 per cent of the votes.

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Inthe interview, Stewart talked about Henry Fonda, with ‘

whom he constructed rubber-band-powered airplanes, ' and
Dustin Hoffman, who is “sort of my. favorite” among, .

current actors,

‘Fonda was “the. closest friend lever had and I think the :
most complete, ‘versatile, near-perfect actor,'t’ Stewarl ;

said,

.thesame machine Friday while posing for publicity pictures
— much to the dismay of a woman who had been asked to
move from the machine to another ame, °

._. But Antonina Olivers, playing the $3 wtoereeaiva siot
machine when casino officials asked her to move so the new

Millionaire, WjiHam Robinson, could step in for pictures,
didn't come out a loser, “Hatrah's Marina casino hotel
“decidest to pay bath patrons a $10,000 jackpot. |

It took only thrée tries before Robinson hit the jackpot ;

again. Oliveri stood agtiast as bells rag and lights flashed.

~ “It was quite a. scene,” Robinson said. “She started *.
: screarhing that it was hers. I'told her 1 knew how she feli
- and offered to give her $1,000, but she wanted it all, That! 8

when I started getting hot wnder the collar,”
After:-casino officiala smoothed ‘ “ overmthe sitaation,

Robinadn said Oliveri “was-all smiles, and ahe had her

arms Around me when they: tookour picture. ns .

Treatment i improves.

stantly. improving. el E

antthistarnines) are, the drowsier they seem to make you,”

Gerard stiggested that the most effective long-term relief.

from. hay. fever and related allergies is desensitizing the
patient, a process that can take’up to two years or mora.

_, “If a person is allergic 16 grass pollen, then yougive him -
increasing injections of grass pollen extract so that when:
. the qraas pollen seagon, comes around he ja less sensitive lo

1e,""

dropa or: ‘nasal’ epray.

Hay fever is a general term ised te describe aii si

‘and summer allergies. . The phrase started years ago when’:
farmers. ‘diseodered. a sensitivity. to Reais ‘pollen in te
flelds::. ‘

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It outlines the process of evolution, using evidence haséd
= ‘on fossil discaveriés to illustrate’ how new Yonienng came ©

“Party ofticials aaid Sunday 'that Foot, who will be 70 next |,
; month, will step. down in October after. ‘leading Labor inlo a
“devastating general: election defeat. last week to Prime

’ Hay fever plagues 10-per cent ‘of the population but few *
Sufferers find . effective: ‘relief, says Dr..J3.W: Gerard, A
~’ University of Saskatchewan medical professor,

"| Gerard said there are no Innovative treatments in sight

ae “-". for gufferers of summer all les but medi is con-
’ ‘A former trick driver who had just: won in $i, od ridin from ork cation is con.

‘an Atlantic City, N.J., slot machine hit a'$10,000 jackpot at |

Leos

“There's a new antihistamine which 1s supposed (to not)
make you drowsy,"’he said. “The more effective (ordinary

“Dr, Ted Aaron, an Edmonton’ allergist, sald many people o
*uge over-the-counter sprays and tablets. Among them is-a <.
‘protective drug called chromogiteate ¢ can be used as ‘Ge:

theory. that has: withstood: alll attempts tordiscredit 4

Were

separated by, more: ‘than 200. million years;

River. in'Texas, at: ‘the: site of & famous’ dinosaur: dig. But ©
McGowan came. across an article: that argued the fiuman’:
“footprints were ‘yeally. ‘single tee-prints Tiade’ by: ‘theropod -

al volution is scigaitific

died 10 months iar : Andrei Kirilenko,
Brezhnev’s successor, was retired ‘two days. alte
i, mer Soviet, leader suffered . a fatal heart attac

An-interesting example is McGowan's count of how he _..!4% OR CHANGES

dealt with the creationists’ claim that “human footprints we
had been discayered alongside those of dinosaurs” ; although,
. ~_. evolutiondiry. theory. ‘holds. ‘that man ‘and’ dinogaurs v

dinosaurs, withthe other two side prints missing. The ar- :

used ’ ‘to ‘highlight the “human” prints:

Suspiciotis that: the sand niight‘also be hiding any side-":

not believe that the

“But to dismiss them as harmless, ‘simple-minded cranks | ;
is to undétestimate the dangers’ they. pote, The thme ‘has
come'jto. put -the creation . science! movement’ where’ it.’
belongs =" and that: is defintely. ot in ‘the: ‘selene

' toeprints, McGowan took a second look at the Paluxy | River:
film and "sure enough, in one of the Human prints. 1 could *
"discern a side. toe. ae .

ite without poverty. Dewar said she respects life, “but lite creationists pose any ‘threat to truth: and ‘earaing, ‘he'gaya.

_ In the meantime; only Geldar’ ‘Aliev;: the’ ‘so-yeaiald,
former party boss int. the southern. republic of ‘Azerbaijan,
hasbeen elevated i to the Politburo and many Soviet sources _
~ , believe his romtiotion had been Bareed: before: Brezhnev:
dled. | n f

“A creationist tim entitled Footprhits in Sione hiicatba mo

human : ‘footprints: “were: ‘photographed: calorig”: the” ‘Paluxy:: : ough - worker ‘dinelptine campaign and “ae crackdown on.

“corruption, His} ‘hold: on power seemed to be increasing. until ~
“mid-March when he’ ‘was reported tohave been, ‘admitted to. ;
- hospital: with: heart’
‘ticle inclided several photography and indicated sand was “wets ec was able to'rally enough party:
-:Jeaders to block a pletary session of the Central Committee
“slated for the: ‘end of. March? / : a
The: Andropoy. faction -— thought’ to irielide Uelinov, ,
Forelgn’ Minister Andrel Gromyko, Leningrad party boss
Grigory - Romanoy, ‘and. Ukraine party: chief-.: ‘Vladimir
_ Shchetbltsky — responded’ tothe” halle
4 Gromyks first deputy premier, +
At. about, that time,. Chernenko’ fell iw imgelt. and his
office eventually admitted he had pneumonia.: . Atidropov’ S
‘forces: ‘Apparently | took: advantage of Chernériko's. absence
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