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...several Roman Catholic bishops have come out against "gay rights" bills in their cities. With the tacit backing of Terence Cardinal Cooke, Catholics played a heavy role last year in defeating a New York City antidiscrimination bill that had been expected to pass. In California, an ad hoc Coalition of Concerned Christians recently tried?but failed?to put to a referendum the state's new law legalizing all sexual acts between consenting adults...
Already, emotions are rising as economically interested groups argue the pros and cons of the new Soviet grain deals. Last week an ad hoc committee of the AFL-CIO maritime unions, which are threatening to boycott the Soviet shipment, met with Butz to protest the sales. "This sounds like the 1972 rip-off all over again, and we won't stand for it," said the Longshoremen's Thomas Gleason, referring to the Soviet purchase of 19 million tons of U.S. grain three summers ago. "Nobody is going to be ripped off," Butz assured the seamen. Said Don Woodward...
...Goulandris family. Most of the shipowners' contributions have been to aid Greek-Cypriot refugees. Such prominent Greek Americans as former San Francisco Mayor George Christopher, California investment Millionaire James Zissis and Mayor Lee Alexander of Syracuse, N. Y., have worked hard in the lobbying drive. An ad hoc group, the Hellenic Council of America, was founded last summer by Columbia University Economics Professor Phoebus Dhrymes to enlist academic and professional people in the campaign...
...tenure appointment in Afro is made by the ad hoc committee it is expected that person will become chairman of the Afro Department second semester next year when Guinier becomes 66, the mandatory retirements age for department chairman
...Irven DeVore, professor of Anthropology and chairman of the faculty council subcommittee, said Saturday he expects the ad hoc committee to recommend at least one of the three candidates for tenure. "It is quite likely that a tenure appointment will result for the committee, knowing the quality of the candidates," he said...