Word: pittsburgh
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Trying some long-distance lobbying, 300 American nuns attending a convention in Pittsburgh of the National Assembly of Women Religious issued an open letter beseeching the all-male College of Cardinals to incorporate into the election "the voices of those whom present church structures exclude from participation." Minnesota's Archbishop John R. Roach, vice president of the U.S. bishops' conference, even named names. Because the next Pope must be a "very strong evangelizer" above all, Roach said, he favors George Basil Hume of England, who is considered an extremely long shot...
DIED. Ben Moreell, 85, retired Four-Star Admiral who created and commanded the Navy's World War II Seabee units; of cancer; in Pittsburgh. Seeing a need for wartime construction crews that could fend off attack, Moreell recruited a new corps of gun-toting workers he called the Seabees, for CBs, or Construction Battalions. He directed their $10 billion fortification of Atlantic-Pacific bases, and had the foresight to include Pearl Harbor, which gained two docks invaluable in its recovery from the 1941 Japanese invasion. After the war, Moreell became Chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp...
...sets of twins were on hand. One of its two black members was present. The other had been glimpsed around town years ago, but where he was now was a mystery here in Kittanning, Pa., a hilly little county seat on the Allegheny River some 45 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, homelike if not home to the members of the Kittanning High School class...
...group of men and women also called on Republican Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania. He was not in the office, so the visitors replied that they would wait until he returned. When a male aide tried to soothe them, Barbara Evans-Crawford, president of the Pittsburgh Council for Women's Rights, shot back: "Don't you dare tell me you know how I feel. You were born with rights I have been working for for ten years." Schweiker did not show up, and the group finally left...