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Among the U.S.'s 233 Catholic colleges, Curran's former employer is unique. The Catholic University was chartered in 1889 by the papacy, and its theology school grants Vatican-authorized degrees. While most U.S. Catholic universities are run by predominantly lay boards, the school's chancellor is the Archbishop of Washington, and 16 bishops, usually including all active U.S. Cardinals, sit on its 40-member board. Last year the board carried out a 1986 Vatican directive and barred Curran from teaching Catholic theology. Curran, 54, retained tenure but spurned compromise offers to teach nontheological subjects in other departments...
...thought about writing a letter. 'Dear Coach, I'd like in every way possible to get you out of this league. If you want to put my name down for a recommendation, you don't even need to call me.'"--Mississippi women's basketball Coach Van Chancellor, referring to six of the SEC teams being ranked...
Flying into Bonn, Baker vowed to find out "exactly what the German position is" on a U.S. plan for upgrading 88 Lance nuclear missiles (range: 80 miles), most of them based in West Germany, with new longer-range weapons. That is a touchy subject for West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Modernization has become a hot-button issue in German politics, and Kohl would like to postpone modernizing the weapons until after national elections in December 1990. Already Kohl's Christian Democrats have suffered thrashings in six recent local elections, and his government might not survive an unpopular pledge to accept...
...going to look at everything--closings, mergings, trimming down and expansion," said higher education Chancellor Franklyn Jenifer...
...secretary said he and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl agreed at a "very, very friendly" talk yesterday to negotiate differences over the NATO plan which would develop, produce and deploy new nuclear missiles to replace aging shorter-range rockets...