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Sisters, meanwhile, have joined the laity in proclaiming women's grievances. A new round of rage could occur later this year if, as expected, the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur bow to Vatican pressure and oust Sisters Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey of Charleston, W. Va. Since signing a 1984 newspaper ad, they have refused to stop advocating a pro-choice abortion stance. Chicago's Sister Margaret Traxler, who also signed that ad, intends to organize a nuns' strike if they are expelled. Says she: "It's difficult for the Pope and bishops suddenly in this day to realize...
...Arabia. According to Kattke, Morton turned him over to Gadd, who was then working for Vinnell. But Kattke's coup plans were aborted when the Prime Minister was killed by his rivals in the government. When North began planning his own operation to support a possible U.S. invasion to oust Bishop's successors, he turned to Kattke's group for help...
...limiting the executive branch. Recalls Joachim von Elbe, a Bonn legal expert: "We did not want to make the Germans just imitate the American constitutional model but rely on themselves to reform, rebuild and overcome the Nazi period." The framers decreed that the Bundestag, or parliament, could not oust a Chancellor without first choosing a successor. That has helped prevent a return of the political chaos that brought the Nazis to power in the 1930s...
...sides. Its pilots were pressing to buy the airline because they felt Ferris was spending too much time and money buying hotels, to the detriment of the company's core business. Meanwhile, dissident shareholders, led by a trio of Manhattan-based investors called Coniston Partners, launched a campaign to oust management, arguing that the company would be worth far more if it were broken into pieces and sold. The critics pointed to the firm's lackluster financial performance: its net income was only $11.6 million last year on revenues of $9.2 billion, and the airline itself lost $80.6 million...
Nonetheless, long-range prospects are at best uncertain. One looming threat ) emanates from a vocal group that wants to rally the 518,000 PTL Partners in order to oust Falwell. Like the Bakkers, these protesters are Pentecostals and Charismatics, believers in "gifts" of the Holy Spirit, such as healing and speaking in tongues. As a Fundamentalist Baptist, Falwell is doctrinally opposed to these practices, and the five-member PTL board he appointed has no Pentecostal representatives. The loudest of the anti-Falwell group is the Rev. Mike Evans of Fort Worth, who thinks the chastened Bakker "has every right...