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...cities. To meet this demand, a colony of American firms has sprung up in Rome, which otters the nearest reservoir of technical talent and the best transportation to the underdeveloped nations. Last week Rome's top American architects ranged over Africa and Asia Minor, supervising hospital construction in Nigeria and Iraq, launching a highway project in Libya, delivering final drawings for a prison in Baghdad...
...citing new vision. Now the Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church sees his idea as more possible than before, more urgent than ever, and beset by subtle dangers. Last Sunday, shortly after returning from a meeting of the World Council of Churches' Central Committee in Nigeria, he went to San Francisco's Grace Episcopal Cathedral, where he had first called for a united church "truly catholic, truly reformed, truly evangelical," and spoke his second thoughts...
Even before Blake suggested that Protestantism should consider the impact of Roman Catholic renewal on the ecumenical movement, the World Council of Churches was acting on the need. At the end of its annual meeting last week in Enugu, Nigeria, the council's 100-man Central Committee voted to establish with the Vatican a joint working committee to discover areas of interfaith cooperation...
...Johnson wants $780 million for that purpose, pledged that the money would be "concentrated where it will contribute to lasting progress." About $507 million would go to the seven countries that have best helped themselves under U.S. aid and have avoided expenditures on "unnecessary armaments and foreign adventures": India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Brazil and Chile. To underwrite loans and grants for the Alliance for Progress, Johnson asked for $580 million this year-$70 million more than Congress appropriated in 1964. To justify the increase, the President cited convincing statistics to show that the "governments and people of Latin America...
...most critical decision to come before the World Council of Churches since its founding 16 years ago is the choice of a successor to the Rev. Willem Visser 't Hooft, 64, its omnicompetent general secretary. Last week, meeting in the improbable town of Enugu, Nigeria, the council's 100-member central committee showed its deep concern over the decision by rejecting one officially nominated successor and ordering a search for someone else...