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...branch of Anglicanism) broke from their church over its ordination of women and tolerance for remarriage after divorce. In 1980 the Vatican agreed to the dissidents' requests to join the Roman Catholic Church. Parishes for converts were established in Las Vegas, Columbia, S.C., and the Texas cities of Austin, Houston and San Antonio. The traditional Roman Catholic Mass was said at these churches during the original phase, but for the first time in the U.S., the Vatican waived the celibacy rule and to date 23 married ex-Episcopal priests have been ordained in the Catholic Church. And now, for this...
...Administration reacted with alternating doses of vehemence and guarded flexibility. Speaking to the Council on Foreign Affairs in Austin, Vice President George Bush declared that Ortega's suggestions "do not appear to represent significant moves." Bush warned that if the U.S. failed to aid the contras, "we run the risk of seeing another Libya develop, a warehouse of subversion and terrorism only two hours by air from the Texas border." More concretely, U.S. concern was demonstrated by the presence of the battleship Iowa off the coast of Honduras. Shultz, on the other hand, adopted a less confrontational tone...
...Karl, president of Karl Home Video, producer of the Jane Fonda Workout, "best sellers make up 10% of the merchandise, and the rest is alternative programming--books on cooking, travel, self-help. The future of home video is the creation and translation of all these books to video." Observes Austin Furst, president of Vestron Video: "It's going to be a good business someday, but built brick by brick." All the industry needs now is a cassette to explain how to stack them...
...morally repugnant business. The family law firm, Baker & Botts, which his great- grandfather joined in 1872, was the largest, most prestigious in Houston. Like his father, Baker was educated at the Hill School in Pennsylvania and Princeton, then earned a law degree at the University of Texas, Austin. Because of antinepotism rules at Baker & Botts, he joined Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones to practice corporate law in 1957. Baker, like most Houston aristocrats of that era, was a conservative Democrat. While his father and grandfather had denigrated politics as a dishonorable profession, Baker was simply uninterested; he has described himself...
...less than three years." The reason we came out smelling like a rose is that we overthrew a different government than the one we had planned to. Instead of the moderately popular government headed by Cuban ally Maurice Bishop, we toppled the unpopular three-week-old regime of Hudson Austin...