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Besides that, the decision opens a new breach between Anglicans and the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. In August, during the most substantial international Anglican-Orthodox talks in years, the Orthodox theologians decreed that women priests would be "a very serious obstacle" to improved relations. Responding to the vote. Father Nicon Patrinacos of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America said the "letter of the law" prevents the Orthodox from consulting with a church whose order differs from their own. Thus world Or thodoxy must now debate whether ecumenical talks can proceed...
...Kemper Arena. Griffin, in turn, would direct eleven regional whips on the floor and key Ford operatives in every delegation. Any slippage in expected voting patterns would lead to a quick request to poll the offending delegation, giving the Ford men tune to try to close the breach...
...Canadian demands. Following personal expressions of concern from President Gerald Ford, officials representing the 460-member U.S. Olympic team threatened withdrawal. Other teams expressed varying degrees of shock and outrage at Canada's behavior. Even the Canadian Olympic Committee called its government's stand a "breach of faith...
Herzog's argument had forceful support from U.S. Ambassador William Scranton. While acknowledging that the rescue "necessarily involved a temporary breach" of Uganda's territorial integrity, Scranton maintained that Israel had "good reason" to act with limited force to protect its citizens from an "imminent threat of injury or death in a situation where the state in whose territory they are located is either unwilling or unable to protect them." The rescue, Scranton added, "electrified millions everywhere, and-I confess-I was one of them." The British were nearly as emphatic in their backing of Israel, although...
...just for whites. She sat up through the night with sick black children as well. In an era of strict segregation, she would greet black friends at the front door or in her parlor, while her husband went out the back door to avoid witnessing such a breach of local mores...