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...termination of pregnancy" in some extreme circumstances, such as rape and incest. Two weeks ago, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), with 3 million members, called for a task force to review its strong, 18-year-old prochoice position. And last May the General Conference of the 9.3 million- member United Methodist Church officially moderated the church's prochoice position. The denomination continues to recognize "tragic conflicts of life with life that may justify abortion," but it now condemns its use for "gender selection" or "birth control...
...round play on Thursday in the East Regional at Chapel Hill, N.C., has Missouri (19-10) meeting Rhode Island (26-6) and Syracuse (25-8) meeting North Carolina A&T (26-2) and seeking to break a seven-game tournament losing streak. Also at Chapel Hill on Thursday, Southern Methodist (27-6) meets Notre Dame (20-8) and second-seeded Duke (24-6) goes against Boston University...
Contestant coordinator Hary Selsby will choose four team members and two alternates from Harvard, who will compete against teams from the University of Pennsylvania, Southern Methodist University and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA...
...Khoza Mgojo, head of the Methodist Church, said the petition would be mailed to Botha. The document was drenched during the confrontation...
...Huntington Beach, Calif., denies hotly that his group is racist or white supremacist, but rambles on about minority gangs and the "poison ideas on the streets" that come from other countries. Says he: "We mean to set things right with or without violence." William Gibson, a sociologist at Southern Methodist University, believes the "element of warrior fantasy" is strong among hate groups. Reason: they feel so abandoned by a changing America that they want to take matters into their own hands...