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Other foes are mobilizing. After receiving the report, a group of 18 Southern bishops conferred in Dallas and sent out a sharp-edged declaration reaffirming church opposition to nonmarital and same-sex relations. By last week, a total of 40 bishops (out of 275) had endorsed the declaration. The bitter fight ahead was presaged in a severe critique by the Rev. Stephen Noll, academic dean at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. "Many conscientious Episcopalians," he wrote, "feel they cannot stay in a church which officially denies one of the moral essentials of the faith...
...trouble in Rwanda started last October when a violent civil war left between a violent civil war left between 100,000 and 500,000 civilians dead. Members of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) overthrew the mainly Hutu civil government and militia in three months of bitter fighting. During the last few weeks of fighting the Tutsi rebels drove the Hutu army west (towards Zaire), pushing an estimated 1.75 million Rwandan refugees ahead of them. The exiled Hutu Government fled into the French controlled safe zone in southwestern Rwanda. From this haven, the deposed Hutu leaders broadcast messages...
...late 1960s, while running the GRU's key listening post in Rangoon, Polyakov gave the CIA everything the Soviets collected from there on the Vietnamese and Chinese armed forces. Rotated back to Moscow as head of the GRU's China section, he photographed crucial documents tracking that country's bitter split with Moscow. A CIA specialist on Sino-Soviet relations drew on rich detail from a Soviet source -- whom he learned just last week was Polyakov -- that enabled the analyst to conclude confidently that the Sino-Soviet split would persist. The paper was used by Henry Kissinger, helping...
...TIME: Over the past year, once bitter enemies in South Africa and the Middle East have made tremendous progress in working together. Why haven't you tried to seize the moment here with the British...
...United's worldwide route system, adding key gateways like Chicago-Tokyo -- now the airline's most profitable route -- all the while cutting costs by about $1 billion annually over the past three years. Wolf's determination to demand deep new pay cuts and layoffs, which might have triggered a bitter and costly strike, helped bring about the current deal when UAL's board decided to buy labor peace by accepting the employee bid. Under the buyout terms, employees will select three of the 12 UAL directors, who together will possess veto power over certain issues such as asset sales...