Word: awaiting
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...ruling is expected eventually to have a broad impact on other private na tional groups that exclude women, but it is not yet clear which organizations might be affected. The status of such groups as the Boy Scouts and Kiwanis will have to await case-by-case tests. But the Minnesota Jaycees chapters did not have to delay celebrating. Kathy Ebert, former vice president of the Minneapolis chapter, had suffered through the 5½ yearlong legal process as one of the original plaintiffs and happily called a press conference to savor the victory. As for Anne Nelson, a St. Paul...
Last week in Brownsville, Texas, Mennonite Lay Worker Stacey Lynn Merkt, 29, became the first member of the sanctuary movement to be prosecuted by the Federal Government for aiding illegal immigrants. Others await trial, and despite fears that the Merkt case signals a wave of prosecutions, sanctuary leaders plan to continue their work. Says the Rev. Gregory Dell, whose Wheadon United Methodist Church in Evanston, Ill, is sheltering two Salvadorans: "The basic style of churches is not to break any more laws than necessary. But we're not going to abandon refugees who are the subject of injustice, regardless...
While Michael Jackson fans across the nation eagerly await the Jacksons' upcoming megatour, city fathers in Foxboro, Mass. (pop. 14,200), last week did the unthinkable. They banned a performance there by the Gloved One, citing "security considerations" and fear of the "unknown element" that might descend upon the town. Foxboro officials were accused of racism, namely trying to keep out black teens who might travel from nearby Boston for the concert, a charge that the officials heatedly denied. Meanwhile, the tour's promoters were being criticized for the way a ticket lottery was being handled. Jackson concert...
...Gandhi can probably no longer negotiate with most of the moderate leaders of the Akali Dal, the Sikh political party. A few, in fact, are now regarded as cowards by the enraged Sikh community. She will have to await the emergence of a suitable Sikh leader, possibly retired Lieut. General Jagjit Singh Aurora, a hero of the 1971 Bangladesh war. In the past the Sikhs have sought the exclusive use of Chandigarh, the Le Corbusier-designed city that since the creation of the predominantly Hindu state of Haryana out of the heavily Sikh Punjab in 1966 has served...
...issue that still dogs the Corporation is the question of representation. All of the current members come from the traditional Corporation member background: wealthy, successful, middle aged white males, and many critics continue to await the first woman or minority member...