Word: lording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lord Carrington wins his gamble, but hazards lie ahead
...urbane, aristocratic Foreign Secretary, the sixth week of the Lancaster House Conference in London on Zimbabwe Rhodesia ended with a long awaited breakthrough: Patriotic Front Co-Leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo after a four-day exclusion from the talks accepted a British-drafted constitution. In return Lord Carrington promised Western-financed compensation for any lands nationalized by a future Zimbabwe government...
...first independence movement, in the mid-1950s. Last week the burly, jovial guerrilla leader presided over another historic turn in London, where his ZAPU party directed much of the Patriotic Front political strategy that led to the acceptance of the constitution. Shortly after his fateful meeting with Lord Carrington, Nkomo discussed the possibility of a settlement with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William Me Whirter. Excerpts...
...simple plot, by all accounts, about "a witch who wanted to be human and the gal he witched who weren't true." But, as the good Lord says, those who know not of what they speak should shut the hell up. Who, after all, are these men, Howard Richardson and William Berney, who pervert morality onto a framework that cannot stand its weight? It's an exhausted tale of witches and lovers and hillbillies, a sinnin' and a rollin' in the hay and a borin' you to tears. And you the congregation knows what will happen and have no reason...
...them. The Catholic Church (like the Eastern Orthodox churches) has never ordained women. Reacting against the decision of some Anglican churches to do so, the Vatican in 1977 issued a decree stating that the policy on women is an act "in fidelity to the example of the Lord." That means in effect that if Jesus had wanted women priests he would have chosen a female apostle. (Some Protestants who take the Bible literally and oppose the ordination of women cite the dictum in the First Epistle of Paul to Timothy that women should not have "authority" over...