Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bishops, "He's trying to change the makeup of the hierarchies so he will have more control." Some liberals question whether papal authority can be so easily imposed. Father Greeley points out that U.S. Catholics no longer constitute an immigrant culture, and are far more likely to attend college than are Americans as a whole. Says he: "The American hierarchy and the Vatican simply haven't realized that we have a well-educated population out there whom you cannot coerce or talk down to." Joseph Pichler, an active lay Catholic and president of a retailing chain, agrees: "People...
With U.S.-Soviet arms talks due to begin on March 12, the Kremlin obviously can ill afford another leadership crisis. In addition, there is domestic business to attend to: the Central Committee is reportedly eager to schedule the 27th Party Congress for some time later this year, a weighty occasion that would demand a high public profile on the part of the leadership. But as a Scandinavian diplomat notes, "they cannot prepare such an important event without knowing who the General Secretary of the party will...
...party invitation most fervently fished for, and least frequently hooked, was to a dinner dance last Thursday given by Italy's Ambassador to Washington, Rinaldo Petrignani. Though the Reagans could not attend, it was held in honor of their "friends from California," and virtually everyone on the guest list was required to meet both qualifications. Among those who did: Betsy Bloomingdale, the First Lady's best chum; Publisher Walter Annenberg and his wife Leonore; Attorney General William French Smith and Wife Jean...
...schedule on the first day of his second term was kept deliberately low key: a 45-minute prayer service at the National Cathedral, to be followed by the swearing-in ceremony at the White House. In the late afternoon, the President was due at the Jefferson Memorial to attend the National Pageant of Young Americans, one of several Inaugural events designed to increase the participation of incipient Republicans...
Such assurances did not prevent two of the current cases from winding up in court. In both Council Bluffs and Pasadena, judges ruled that the afflicted children should be allowed to attend school but must submit to a daily inspection by school nurses. The Maryland judge stipulated that Johnny Bigley wear clothing that covers his lesions and ordered special precautions to protect the school employees who change his diapers...