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...hope proved hollow. Before the convention delegates could reassemble, the three principal parties of the Protestant United Ulster Unionist Coalition caucused at Stormont. Among the subjects discussed was the convention's mandate: that some formula be found for power sharing acceptable both to Ulster's 1 million Protestants and 500,000 Catholics. In the caucus debates, William ("King Billy") Craig, leader of the militant Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, emerged in the unlikely role of moderate. Long a hardliner, Craig now was urging that Catholic moderates be considered for Cabinet posts, though only on a temporary, emergency basis...
...later Assad's Baath Party called the Sinai agreement "strange and disgraceful," and Assad pointedly refused to receive Egyptian Vice President Husny Mobarak when he appeared to explain the Egyptian view. In Israel, as she made a rare political appearance to vote for ratification at a Labor Party caucus, former Premier Golda Meir said she greeted the second-stage agreement "not with a fanfare but also not with a feeling of mourning...
...approve the ordination of homosexual ministers, a conservative caucus warned that the move "will precipitate the most divisive climate since the slavery controversy split American Methodism in 1847." Acknowledging this, the youth council has called instead for a churchwide study on human sexuality. Episcopalians expect a similarly divisive controversy if the gays succeed in bringing the issue before the church's general convention next year...
...Secretary. Then the New York Times broke the silence with an editorial praising Carter and urging Kissinger to back down. Columnist Carl T. Rowan followed with a blast blaming Carter's punishment on Kissinger's "monumental ego" and "tough-guy complex." Members of the congressional Black Caucus requested a meeting with the Secretary...
...impression that they can force a negotiation with the United States and an acquiescence in their demands, then we may save lives in one place at the risk of hundreds of lives everywhere else." But to calm the controversy, he later assured leaders of the congressional Black Caucus that nothing would be done to impede Carter's career. Nonetheless, Carter's future in the Foreign Service is not bright (Kissinger also complained of his "engaging in an independent publicity campaign"). Now representing the U.S. at a United Nations conference on human rights in Geneva, Carter is scheduled...