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...Orthodox "possess true sacraments, above all-by apostolic succession-the priesthood and the Eucharist." In other words it saw virtually no doctrinal barrier to joint Communion, which is not yet the case with any other Christian body. For the Orthodox, however, Communion should be shared only when full doctrinal accord is achieved...
...Carter Administration's efforts to devise another wage guideline to replace one that nominally expired Oct. 1 led to a poignant business-labor standoff last week. The White House in September had hailed the new 18-member Pay Advisory Committee as part of a ''national accord" on wage policy that would mark a healing of the rift between the President and organized labor. When the committee's first working session took place, however, all the problems of proper compensation in a period of 13% inflation burst open...
...aftermath of the 1973 oil embargo, a report of the Senate multinationals subcommittee suggested the "over-riding lesson" was that "in a democracy, important questions of policy with respect to a vital commodity like oil, the lifeblood of an industrial society, cannot be left to private companies acting in accord with private interests and a closed circle of government officials." Right now information is the scarcest and most vital commodity in the oil industry. The only way the government can hope to secure a dependable supply of this commodity is to explore its own lands and to enter the market...
Those two related questions have dominated the Senate debate on ratification of the SALT II accord. More generally, they have been influencing the way other countries view the U.S. as a world power. The search for answers has already caused one of the most far-ranging U.S. defense controversies since World...
...head a week earlier by presenting a "final" constitutional proposal: it guarantees 20% of the parliamentary seats to Rhodesia's white minority of 212,000, but strips it of its effective control of the military, judiciary and civil service. While avoiding the word ultimatum, Carrington insisted on the accord of both parties...