Word: bishops
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...legislature in 1967. This law was designed to put an end to the remnants of Hawaii's feudal tenure system, a holdover from the islands' settlement by Polynesian immigrants who allowed only high chiefs to own land. The challenge was brought by trustees of the Bishop estate, Hawaii's largest private landowner (340,000 acres...
...estate is the legacy of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, a member of one of Hawaii's royal families, who died...
...Bishop estate and about 70 other large landholders own 47% of Hawaii's 4 million acres; the local and Federal governments hold 42%. Less than 11% is held by small property owners. The state argued that this concentration of land in a few hands has sharply inflated housing costs for Hawaii's homeowners. Says Congressman Cecil Heftel, a Honolulu Democrat: "The ruling protects a lot of people who otherwise would have been unable to maintain their homes...
...same hot afternoon in Managua, the capital, a vastly different drama was playing to a packed house. Some 4,000 Nicaraguans crowded into the modernistic Don Bosco Church as the new head of the country's nine-member Roman Catholic Episcopal Conference, Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, used harsh language to describe the plight of his flock under the Marxist-led Sandinistas. Said Vega: "The tragedy of the Nicaraguan people is that we are living with a totalitarian ideology that no one wants in this country." While the priest spoke, nearly a dozen military Jeeps circled the building. Says...
...ethical responsibilities of companies with South African operations in relation to employment conditions and other opportunities enjoyed by non-white employees and their families. Recently the ACSR and the CCSR endorsed several shareholder proposals calling on U.S. companies with South African operations to embrace goals recently enunciated by Bishop Desmond Tutu. Some of these goals go beyond the Sullivan Principles and the principles of socially responsible behavior adopted by Harvard in 1978. Bishop Tutu has called on U.S. companies to help ensure that workers' families should be allowed to live with them; to permit unionization by black workers; to promote...