Word: calls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British tabloids as the Pangbourne Massacre, has occurred in an elegant, exclusive development west of London: 32 adult residents of the tasteful new houses have been murdered, and 13 children have disappeared. Baffled investigators, ranging from the local police up to the Home Office and Scotland Yard, eventually call on Dr. Richard Greville, a psychiatrist who specializes in criminal behavior. Running Wild is his report...
...latest skirmish erupted last week in San Francisco, as parishioners of St. Francis Lutheran Church voted 46 to 5 to call a lesbian couple as assistant pastors: Ruth Frost and Phyllis Zillhart, both graduates of Luther Northwestern seminary in Minnesota. Bishop Lyle Miller refuses to approve them as ministers because they will not commit themselves to sexual abstinence. The congregation, half gay, will have to ordain the women on its own, defying both the ordination rules of the 5.3 million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and its policy against "homosexual erotic activity" among ministers...
Neither would call the session a summit; it is supposed to be too informal for that. To avoid an overcharged atmosphere at their first encounter, Bush and Gorbachev plan to talk without any specific agenda, avoid signing any agreements and part without even issuing a communique. The principal aim, said Bush, is to "deepen our respective understanding of each other's views...
...traffickers hid their stockpile where they hoped no one would want to look: inside 10-gal. drums of sodium hydroxide, a caustic powder. When narcotics agents discovered the cache last Friday night in a warehouse in Queens, N.Y., they had to call in hazardous-waste specialists to handle the material. Total amount seized: as much as 5 1/2 tons. Only five weeks earlier, police had broken open a $6 padlock on the door of a warehouse in suburban Los Angeles and discovered 21.4 tons of cocaine, the largest U.S. cache ever grabbed. All told, authorities estimate, they will have seized...
...thousands more East Germans flee to the West, the new President genuflects to perestroika in Moscow and his underlings call mass meetings to hear complaints. But events are bringing the two Germanys closer together. -- Ortega scuttles a cease-fire with Nicaragua's contras. -- A vibrant new middle class stirs in India...