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UNITED NATIONS--Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minster Eduard Shevardnadze yesterday agreed that unity can help secure a cease-fire between warring Iran and Iraq, but said nothing about a U.S.-proposed arms embargo against Iran...
...disgruntled vicar John Mowll is suggesting the heavenly bolt that apparently caused the fire in York Minster [WORLD, July 23] was a manifestation of God's displeasure over the installation of liberal Bishop David Jenkins. But why would God cause such destructive retribution on a temple of worship? Should not the heaven-sent brand have struck Jenkins' own house, thus leaving no doubt as to God's intent? Perhaps God was having...
...that neither the Virgin birth nor the Resurrection need be taken too literally, was formally consecrated as Bishop of Durham in York Min- ster amid cries of protest. Less than three days later, in the early hours of the morning, lightning forked down on the wooden roof of the minster's 13th century south transept. By 2:30 a.m., flames were leap- ing from the medieval masterpiece that is the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe...
...fire raged, members of the minster staff worked together in the burning building to salvage tapestries, candlesticks, altar crosses and whole pews. Eventually the smoke and heat forced them to withdraw, and the south transept's entire roof "collapsed like a pack of dominoes," in the words of one clergyman. After three hours, firemen managed to bring the blaze under control. They also succeeded in preventing the fire from spreading through the rest of the church. As daylight crept into the now roofless transept, the full scope of the tragedy became apparent: littered with six-foot-high piles...
After the York Minster blaze, Jenkins' detractors lost no time in claiming that their views had been vindicated. John Mowll, 51, a vicar who had been evicted from the minster for voicing protests in the midst of the new bishop's consecration ceremony, suggested that "divine intervention" might have caused the fire. Others took refuge in the Bible, citing the prophet Elijah, who brought down a fire from heaven, which destroyed an altar he had built in the presence of the prophets of Baal. A less apocalyptic note was sounded by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie...