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Last week at simultaneous conventions of the A.L.C. in San Diego and the L.C.A. in Louisville, as well as of the much smaller Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (A.E.L.C.) in Cleveland, the three Lutheran churches voted by thunderous majorities to agree, in principle, to unite. After applause and some tears, the conventions then used long-distance telephones to pray together: "Call us now to ever deeper levels of unity; gather us as long-dispersed Lutherans into richer communion...
...third slash in the $190 million payroll, union leaders balked, and the "last resort" disappeared. Everyone braced for the final step in a grim scenario that had been played out in Washington (the Star) and Philadelphia (the Bulletin), and that was soon to be repeated in Cleveland (the Press). Instead, the Tribune Co. reversed field and proclaimed it would keep operating indefinitely, but with a daunting proviso: the city's traditionally intransigent news paper unions, which had watched six papers die since 1950, would have to endorse a prompt elimination of about 1,300 of the paper...