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...Canterbury, Robert A.K. Runcie, since 1980 Primate of All England and spiritual leader of the world's 65 million-member Anglican Communion (including U.S. Episcopalians). The Archbishop, a decorated tank commander in World War II who earned the name "Killer Runcie," was characterized in Crockford's as a spineless churchman who evinces no "clear basis for his policies other than taking the line of least resistance on each issue...
...attack. Senior ecclesiastics instantly rushed to the primate's defense, observing that he had been anything but weak in criticizing Margaret Thatcher's treatment of the poor. The essay was excoriated as an exercise of "anonymous, gutless malice" by one furious bishop. "Scurrilous," snapped the realm's No. 2 churchman, Archbishop of York John Habgood. York had his own reason to complain: he and Runcie were yoked in condemnation by Crockford's. In fact, the essay was seen as a bid to derail the liberal Habgood, 60, as a successor to Runcie, 66, who many expect will vacate...
...Speaker Jim Wright. First came Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, toting a proposal for cease-fire talks between his Sandinista government and the U.S.-backed contras. After Ortega left, Secretary of State George Shultz arrived, followed by the contra leaders. Finally, Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, Nicaragua's ranking churchman, disappeared into Wright's office. An exasperated Reagan Administration, its policymaking efforts sidelined by the frenzy of congressional diplomacy, was forced like the rest of Washington to wait and see what might come of Wright's highly unusual mediation efforts. Complained Presidential Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater: "We don't know what...
...American Presidents. While the Reagan Administration countered Ortega's offer with a call for direct talks, contra leaders hailed the announcement as a "triumph for the resistance." After listening to Ortega's speech on radio in Costa Rica, they urged that Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, Nicaragua's ranking churchman, be tapped to mediate the talks. The next day, Ortega visited the Cardinal's office and later emerged with Obando to announce that Obando had agreed to take the job. A date and place for the first meeting remain...
...aren't heading for a revolution in our country, we are already in the midst of one," says the stern, silver-haired churchman as he glances at the acacias and bougainvilleas blooming outside the window of his study. "And by that I mean it's a revolution of ideas, a revolution of our system of values. We are forced -- even if we don't like it -- we are simply forced to join hands and to share power. We can't go on any longer as we did for the past 300 years. We've got to change...