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Church officials deny these charges, claiming they are simply obeying the New Testament edict that Christians should spread the Gospel everywhere...
...source of Peru's financial crisis is its faltering economy. Peruvians, who have watched their savings being ravaged by a 100% annual inflation rate, have been rushing to exchange their own currency, the Inti, for U.S. dollars that can be invested abroad. Under Garcia's new edict, the nationalized financial institutions will monitor and control all dollar sales, with the aim of keeping what remains of Peru's capital at home...
Armed with an NCAA rules commitee edict, the referees started calling tighter CCHA games. "Everything was being called. In the corners, behind the net, everwhere," said Ted Halm, SID of Ferris State. "We set a new team penalty record...
...what may be the most sweeping ruling to detect AIDS carriers adopted anywhere in the world. In addition to examining prostitutes and drug addicts, Bavaria will give AIDS tests to applicants for government jobs and foreigners coming from countries outside the European Community who seek residency permits. The new edict, moreover, empowers the Bavarian police to round up for examination anyone suspected of carrying the AIDS virus...
...Sheik Khalil Sharkiyeh, the chief Sunni Muslim clergyman of the Burj el-Barajneh camp. Because of acute food shortages, Sharkiyeh appealed to Muslim scholars for a fatwa, or religious ruling, that would allow starving residents to eat human flesh if that became necessary for survival. Though no such edict was forthcoming, an official of the Palestine Liberation Organization, whose forces are defending the camps, said last week that conditions for the 35,000 besieged Palestinians had grown desperate. "Our people in Burj el-Barajneh have already eaten all the cats and dogs they had," he said. "Nothing is left...