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The joint committee that prepared the merger plan had several delicate issues to contend with. For example, their proposal had to assure black Presbyterians that they would not be hurt by the merger. Racial tensions underlay the historic split, and the reunion would have been seriously flawed if blacks protested...
James Andrews, the Stated Clerk (chief administrator) of the P.C.U.S., says that for Southern congregations the bailout provision is "an invitation to play five years of hardball to see if we can make this church work. If not, then we'll just kiss one another goodbye." Southern conservatives will...
House Democrats, led by Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill and Majority leader Rep. James Wright (D-Texas), have proposed dismantling the third year provision of Reagan's 1981 tax bill, which called for across the board tax cuts in the next three years, ending in a five percent cut for...
The only way to deal with such deficits, most Congressmen agree, is to raise revenues. Many Democrats, led by O'Neill, argue that the 10% tax cut scheduled for July should be delayed or restricted, but the President regards as sacrosanct this third installment on the $750 billion tax...
(9 of 12) for a reduction on both sides to 300 by 1990 would leave the U.S. with less than 50 slots of its own?none of which could be filled with Tomahawks or Pershing Us, since those would be prohibited by another provision of the Soviet proposal.