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...Last year he joined in launching formal merger talks with the Eastern Orthodox Church-for the first time since 1054. Consultations continue with Anglicans and Protestants. But the Pope's own emphasis on papal power may prove the ultimate stumbling block. Harvard Theologian George H. Williams, a Protestant expert on the Pope's thinking, believes that John Paul is trying to prevent reforms that he endorses "from destroying the organizational and spiritual and moral unity of the Catholic Church. Ecumenism will emerge later, after he has consolidated the church...
...Pope's shooting brought one predictable result: security forces around the world began studying the case for lessons. "We are now analyzing the attempt on the Pope," says Günter Ermisch, a top security expert for West Germany. After the attack on President Reagan, Canadian authorities doubled the guard around Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau; they now clear the doorways of Parliament for five minutes before he arrives or leaves. The Secret Service refuses to say what new procedures it has adopted to protect President Reagan, but security is clearly heavier than it used...
...these can be minimized. New lightweight bulletproof vests should be worn. Open-car travel must stop. The public should be kept well back from entrances and exits -most recent assassination attempts have been from pointblank range. "There is no way you can provide complete protection," says one American security expert. "But you can give a subject protection from 15 feet away. The farther away you keep an assailant, the harder it becomes...
Judge Hungate's ruling is not expected for several weeks. Meanwhile, Justice Department experts in Washington note that compulsory busing between St. Louis and its suburbs would also be expensive. There is now no precise dollar limit on the tuition bonus. The St. Louis plan is very much an experiment, and it might not work. Yet it is clear that integration needs new approaches. Observes School Expert James Coleman, a busing critic: "One of the problems with desegregation plans in general is that they have been punitive. Children and their families have ordinarily not received any benefit, and they...
...reader have to join the 8 million-plus U.S. birders to enjoy the nearly 6,000 entries and 1,675 photographs and drawings in this striking tome. Terres wrote all the entries himself, a labor of 21 years, balancing the scientific and the popular, to please novice and expert alike. He updates ornithological subjects like mating. Some findings: scientists now call the hummingbird's brief passion "promiscuous"; birds fly by instinct, not parental instruction; a robin's natural life span can be as long as 11½ years, but its life expectancy, because of power lines and pesticides...