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...Angeles' First A.M.E. Church is one congregation that is squarely addressing the problem of lagging male presence. Church leaders have organized special monthly meetings for men, who leave the sanctuary midway through the morning service and gather by themselves. Apart from building male solidarity, the sessions are designed to enlist commitments to 25 church task forces, many of them aimed at troubled young...
...international flights were allowed to land here. But Vladivostok is home to the Soviet Pacific fleet, and the naval high command is more concerned with keeping out spies than with $ letting in businessmen -- or any other foreigners. To permit last week's conference, Shevardnadze had to enlist Mikhail Gorbachev's help in overruling the Ministry of Defense...
...behind the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847. Originally scheduled to fly from Athens to Rome, the plane was eventually taken to Beirut, where Robert Dean Stethem, a U.S. Navy diver who was a passenger on the flight, was beaten and shot to death. Saddam conceivably could try to enlist Mustafa and his colleagues in terrorist acts against the U.S., release them to Iran as a goodwill gesture or keep them as a trump card in negotiations with the West...
...usual sense. Its life has no meaning apart from its colony, a superorganism that Wilson defines as "a sisterhood devoted to the survival of the queen." In sociobiological terms, males are sperm carriers tolerated only as inseminators of virgin queens. When ants go to war, Wilson points out, they enlist their old ladies, not their young males...
Yugoslavia's poorer, heavily subsidized southern republics, Macedonia and Montenegro, are far less enthusiastic about a breakup. They may yet join Serbia in resisting such a move, or enlist in a new political grouping with Belgrade as its base. Further disintegration could also lead to aggressive new moves by Serbia, which has said repeatedly that in the event of the federation's breakup, it will redraw its borders. That would probably mean an attempt to annex Kosovo and a struggle with Croatia over the future of the republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where 33% of the people are Serbs...