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...process of "calling" -- half prayer, half politics -- is conducted in utmost secrecy. After Riverside's search committee makes its choice, it will not give the names of also-rans to the deacons who govern the church and it will shred all the papers in its double-locked filing cabinet. "If it is known you are a candidate and don't get the call, it is very rough," explains search-committee chairman J. Richard Butler. One church that publicly named several finalists years ago lived to regret it: one of the rejected ministers was so crushed that he suffered a nervous...
...source of opposition to the BU plan is the Chelsea Teachers' Union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers. The 350 Chelsea teachers, who have been without a contract since last June, object in particular to BU's request for exemption from public meeting and records laws that govern all school committees...
Aside from that, a union must arrive at ways to govern its internal affairs. To work at cross purposes is to move backward, so we must have agreement with each other to work together, even when there is honest disagreement on what course of action we might take...
Reagan officials frankly acknowledge that these actions were delayed to help Bush politically. But by firing so many provocative parting shots, the outgoing Administration may be harming the spirit of cooperation with Congress that Bush will need once he starts to govern...
...Estonia, advocates of increased local autonomy risk a collision with Moscow over the limits of mutual sovereignty. In Armenia, anger continues to rise over the status of the ethnic minority in Azerbaijan. -- Benazir Bhutto wins the vote, but will she get to govern Pakistan? -- P. L. O. Chairman Yasser Arafat declares a Palestinian state in the West Bank...