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...better-known diplomats, lobbied hard to be his successor. Boutros-Ghali, now 70, had ambitious ideas -- foremost among them the desire to reshape the cumbersome, inefficient organization and deal aggressively with the problems of a world reinventing itself after the cold war. The U.N. seemed to be the beacon for a new planetary order; he was confident he could lead it in that direction...
...controversy intensified last August when the Beacon Hill Meeting, which approves homosexual marriages, asked other Meetings how they would treat couples married by Beacon Hill...
Kantt, who left the Cambridge Meeting and joined the Beacon Hill Friends' group, said that while most of the Cambridge Quakers were in favor of homosexual marriages, a few blocked passage of the resolution...
Sander applauded the efforts of the Beacon Hill Meeting to make gay and lesbian Friends feel comfortable...
Judy Williams, a member of the Beacon Hill Meeting, said that the Cambridge Meeting, with 300 members, cannot react as quickly as the smaller Boston group...