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Vacant Posts. A year ago, Seminex graduated its first 126 students. Challenging orders from headquarters, a number of district presidents found jobs for some of the graduates, and eight presidents even ordained them. In distress, the church's Council of Presidents turned to the Anaheim convention. By a vote of 626 to 466, the delegates passed a resolution ordering district presidents to require the endorsement of an official seminary before certifying candidates for ordination. Any president who does not do so must resign or have his office declared vacant...
...proportion of Americans who perceive themselves in economic distress has leveled off at 36%, up only one point since February; that is still the high since Soundings began, when 23% were in economic distress. Predominantly young and blue collar, these people have been worst hit by the recession...
...anaesthesiologists refused to take nonemergency cases. Patients in New York were apprehensive about a possible halt in medical treatment. Doctors in nine of the state's counties objected to a new state law aimed at solving their insurance problems and picketed in New York City to express their distress. Many physicians threatened to withhold all but emergency services beginning this week, despite the threats by at least one legislator of action to lift the licenses of those...
When that last distress call crackled over the air from the beleaguered U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez in the Gulf of Siam last week, it set in motion a dramatic, controversial train of events that significantly changed the image of U.S. power in the world?and the stature of President Gerald Ford. By calling up U.S. military might and successfully forcing the Cambodians to surrender the ship and free the 39-man crew, Ford acted more firmly and decisively than at any other time in his presidency. By drawing the line against aggression in the Mayaguez incident, he put potential adversaries...
...sign of danger for the Mayaguez was the sudden appearance at 2:20 p.m. (3:20 a.m. in Washington) of a Cambodian gunboat. It fired machine gun bullets and a rocket across the freighter's bow and forced her to stop. Radio Operator Wilbert Bock got off a last distress call. Then the Cambodians apparently located the radio shack and the radio fell silent. But the last message was picked up in Indonesia by agents of the ship's owner and relayed to the State Department in Washington...