Word: canadas
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Runcie sympathized with those who felt "moral scandal" over the exclusion of women. He admired those of the 619 current female priests he had met in the Anglican branches that have ordained them. (The U.S. has 474; Canada, 97; New Zealand, 40; Hong Kong, 4; Uganda, 3; and Kenya, 1.) But, Runcie continued, Scripture and church tradition are "highly dis couraging to the idea." Saying that he has "consistently driven down the middle of the road," he soothingly advocated "gradualism," with more experience of women as ordained deacons or lay ministers before any change is made...
...extremist sentiment, most Sikhs realize the importance of their economic and cultural linkages with the rest of the nation. The most vocal and tenacious of Sikhs who are clamoring for separatism are actually those not in India at all; these are Sikh expatriates, living mainly in the U.S., Canada, and Britain, who are far removed from the crippling consequences of actual partition...
...world that the Sandinistas intend to abide by their longstanding promises of democracy and political pluralism. Some 450 foreign observers watched the Nicaraguan balloting, but there were no official delegations from the major Western industrial democracies. The absence of observers from the hostile Reagan Administration was no surprise. But Canada also declined to send a delegation, as did every member of the European Community, with the exception of The Netherlands...
...Hartman of the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, one of the new theory's pioneers, and his colleagues, including-John Stauffer of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Canada, have shown that stars spin at various speeds during their lifetimes. These scientists are currently devoting much of their energy and time to decipering this curious behavior...
...last week, 23 Reagan-appointed ambassadors-among them the envoys to France, Mexico, Canada and NATO-endorsed Senator Jesse Helms in his race for re-election against Governor James Hunt...