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...While similar in outcome, the two decisions highlight considerable denominational differences over the issue. The Southern Baptist ouster went virtually uncontested, with over 80 percent of the Georgia Baptist Convention voting for the first church expulsions in its 177-year history. The minister of one of the expelled congregations told reporters she was "stunned" over the lack of dialogue preceding the vote. In Nebraska, however, there was a healthy debate both inside and outside the church in which the hearings took place. The Rev. Mel White, a California-based gay-rights activist, imported 100 protesters, who faced off outside...
...last count, the three incumbents who supported Healy's ouster were re-elected, and Braude and Decker, whose campaigns advocated decreasing his power, have won their first terms in office...
...Pakistan's military high command dismissed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, placing Sharif and his close associates under arrest. Army Chief Pervez Musharraf proclaimed himself chief executive, declaring a state of emergency, placing the constitution in abeyance and suspending parliament. Sharif's ouster is the fourth successive dismissal of an elected government before it completed its term of office, bringing to an abrupt end the democratic process Pakistan's powerful army had itself put into place in 1988 when it reluctantly transferred power to the political leadership following eleven years of military rule...
There is no man behind the curtain, OK? The U.S. took the extraordinary step Tuesday of announcing that it strongly opposes any coup attempt in Pakistan, just in case any one thought Washington might acquiesce in the ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. "Nawaz has been under tremendous political pressure ever since Pakistan was forced to withdraw from the Kargil region of Kashmir," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "There was a lot of anger in the military at being ordered to withdraw, and it?s all being directed at the prime minister. Even though the military has undertaken...
...conflict. So when Pakistan sent a guerrilla force to occupy territory on the Indian side of the disputed border earlier this year, Washington joined Beijing ?- Islamabad?s other key ally ?- in demanding Pakistan?s withdrawal. And that left Nawaz to face the music back home. While calls for his ouster are mounting, Washington wants Pakistan?s constitution respected. And experience has made U.S. diplomats more inclined to spell out their positions ?- after all, it was in the belief that Washington would remain neutral that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and started the Gulf...