Word: edward
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...example, the brothers examined the need to make the prayer more their own. What had been an hour and a half of psalm singing and Scripture reading is now a third as long and much more contemporary. Among the readings are excerpts from modern theologians like Edward Schillebeeckx and Henri Nouwen and from Third World proponents of "liberation theology," who consider social and economic activism central to the church's mission...
...Edward Rowny read aloud a letter from President Reagan calling the superpowers "trustees for humanity in the great task of ending the menace of nuclear arsenals." His Soviet counterpart Victor Karpov delivered a brief homily, concluding that "the most important thing about these talks is that we are now finally talking." With that opening exchange last week at Villa Rose, Moscow's diplomatic mission in Geneva, the two negotiators ended a hiatus of three years and resumed an esoteric, tedious and secrecy-shrouded but vital business: trying to reduce the swollen Soviet and U.S. inventories of the most powerful...
...real N.A.A.C.P." Wilson persuasively argues that the fund, which for technical reasons separated from its parent organization in 1957, has not only been siphoning off potential contributions from the N.A.A.C.P. but also confusing donors about what the two organizations stand for. The N.A.A.C.P. has retained former Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts to press a copyright infringement suit against the L.D.F. in federal court. Some association insiders charge that so much of the N.A.A.C.P.'s $7 million budget for 1982 has been earmarked for the case that important programs will have to be curtailed...
Centers all over the country have been damaged by budget cuts and by some strong conceptual questions. Edward Zigler, director of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University, estimates that 40% of the children of working mothers may be in "home day care" (that is, they are cared for either in their own home or in the sitter's), while fully another 40% are in "family day care," where a sitter outside the home cares for four to six children. "It is an open issue for children of every age," he says. Says Psychologist Michael...
Beyond the financial and strategic considerations, the pipeline has become a matter of national pride for the Soviets. "The net effect of the sanctions may. be rather small on the pipeline," predicts Sovietologist Edward Hewett of the Brookings Institution in Washington, "but in terms of U.S. relations with Western Europe, it could be rather serious." The Reagan Administration may be in for considerably more trouble with its allies than it bargained for. -By Frederick Painton. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Lawrence Malkin/Paris