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...that any merger be ratified by two-thirds of its 4,900 U.S. congregations. But A.L.C. Presiding Bishop David Preus, until recently a foot dragger on union, predicts a happy ending. Says he: "It is apparent that the rank and file in our church wish to go ahead with dispatch." Remaining outside the process is the conservative, 2.6 million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod...
...really likes. He postponed a vacation trip to California so he could have chummy chats with more than 150 legislators in the Oval Office and at Camp David. He sent letters to some 5,000 business leaders across the nation, seeking their support. He had the Republican National Committee dispatch some 30,000 pleas in his name for local party leaders to rally behind him. He taped TV spots to be aired in 30 regions in a $400,000 ad campaign by the committee. Overzealous aides even hinted that Republican campaign funds might be withheld from G.O.P. legislators who bucked...
Quite shrewdly, Shakespeare brings Hotspur and Hal together only for the climatic personal duel at the play's end Here director Coe has made a serious mistake He bade his fight master. B H Barry, to stage the combat so that Hotspur repeatedly gains the advantage and could dispatch the Prince, but repeatedly chooses through sheer bravado to spare Hal and permit him to rearm Hal's combative skill is thus cheapened, and his eventual victory is made hollow, the result of mere chance. (It is, by the way, not known who slew the historical Hotspur...
Still, continued fighting around Beirut's international airport has so far prevented U.N. agencies from airlifting supplies. The International Committee of the Red Cross has been able to dispatch aid to Lebanon via Syria and Israel. In addition, the Israelis are gearing up to help the civilians they have made to suffer so grievously. Last week they sent a convoy of 20 ambulances, ten medical-supplies vehicles and 25 doctors to Tyre and Sidon. Individual Israelis have donated chocolate candy, blankets and clothes to Lebanese youngsters. There was even a scheme devised by the Israeli National Labor Federation...
...losses did not affect Britain's resolve. In the House of Commons, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher last week insisted that "if the Argentines tell us that they are prepared to withdraw, we shall enable them to do so with safety, dignity and dispatch." Otherwise, she said, "we shall now have to take back by force what the Argentines would not give up." Even Britain's monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, whose second son, Prince Andrew, is a helicopter pilot aboard the aircraft carrier Invincible, made a rare and direct comment on the issue. Using the banquet at Windsor...