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...says HIID is among the most efficient and well-liked groups working in the Third World. "What separates HIID from U.S. agencies like the-Agency for International Development and other development projects," the official says. "Is the perception on the part of local governments that HIID have no ideological bend This is crucial when you are dealing with less developed countries...
...simply continue their theatrics." He assailed "the knee-jerk reactions and the instant analyses" for being "as hasty as they were incorrect." Contended the President: "We must hold firm to our tax cuts and reduce the budget even more . . . We are at last and at least approaching the bend in the tunnel." Although Republicans control both legislative chambers in Iowa, those lines drew no applause from an audience that was, at best, polite...
...testimony about doctrinal discussions with others. On May 21, Franz was summoned to Brooklyn for a fateful grilling by his Governing Body colleagues. Did he doubt that Jehovah had only one chosen organization? Did he question the official End-times chronology? Franz sought to avoid confrontation but could "only bend so far." It was not enough. Opponents were unable to get a two-thirds majority for his disfellowshipping on the spot, but he was forced to resign from Bethel. In all, about a dozen officials were purged, almost certainly the worst doctrinal crisis Watch Tower headquarters has ever faced...
...GOLDEN POND rewinds me of Sugar Daddies. Actually, it makes me think of all sorts of gooey candy like taffy or Bubble Yum or Star Bursts. But most of all, it makes me thing of Sugar Daddies--those generous-sized oblong lollipops that bend into curious little cow licks after they've been in your mouth for a white. I remember a commercial for Sugar Daddies that used to be on TV. In showed a vat powering--and it seemed like it would poor eternally--the thick golden brown syrup that eventually hardened into the lollipops. On Golden Pond...
...almost everywhere, it snowed. In western Montana, 40-ft. drifts foiled efforts to reclaim two bodies from a private-plane crash. Near South Bend, Ind., 107 travelers were blizzardbound for a night in a state police barracks. Buffalo had a snowfall record: 25 in. in 24 hours. In the South, snow of any depth is a shock, and snow fell in every Southern state, in some for three days running; as much as 5 in. piled up in Georgia...