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...churches across the country, millions of Americans joined in this traditional hymn and others like it on Easter Sunday. They sang of spiritual rebirth, of renewed hope, of joy in the season. But this was an unusually somber Easter, and many a churchgoer could not forget that half a world away, in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, 50 Americans had begun their sixth month of cruel captivity. They, too, had been promised permission to attend Easter services, to be conducted by three Christian clergymen from the U.S. The clergymen flew from New York City's Kennedy Airport, bearing what...
...there was little reason for hope that this would happen soon, for the Easter weekend marked the end of an extraordinary round of diplomacy in the search for a solution to the hostage crisis. Both U.S. and Iranian officials had thought they were within sight of a breakthroughthe transfer of custody of the hostages from the militants to the ruling Revolutionary Council, a move seen as the first step toward their eventual release. Then the negotiations collapsed, leaving the governments as far apart as ever...
...planned spending by $16.5 billion, pushed hard by Chairman Robert Giaimo of Connecticut, who announced last week that he will retire from the House after eleven terms. Floor debate on the committee's resolution, however, which had been scheduled to begin last week, was put off until after Easter. Giaimo said darkly that "there are forces at work trying to delay the vote. They want labor and the special-interest groups to work the members over during the Easter recess...
...Reformation is in the air at the Sorbonne; the student undergoes a profound conversion. His new Protestantism is anathema to both church and state and he flees to Switzerland. In Geneva, Calvin becomes the voice of a new moral order; in one dispute he walks off the altar at Easter and is expelled from the city. Moving to Strasbourg, he ministers to French Protestant refugees, is married and waits for a summons back to Geneva...
...major event of the tour is an Easter Seal tournament involving a number of club teams and receptions at the Harvard Club of Fort Lauderdale...