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...officers," says the Rev. J. McDowell Richards, a retired P.C.U.S. seminary president and a member of the reunion committee. The pact gives P.C.U.S. congregations a 15-year grace period in which they can apply for annual exemptions from the rule. Women activists within the United Presbyterian Church resent this provision, but decided not to oppose the reunion plan...
This shift in the composition of the police department has had some unintended consequences. The increased Latinization of the force has angered many blacks, who resent the services and attention given to Cuban immigrants by city officials. The shooting of Johnson by Alvarez, a Hispanic with only 21 months on the force, inflamed this sore spot. Miami officials also note that he and his partner, Louis Cruz, 22, had left their assigned patrol area and gone to the video-game parlor on their...
Predictably, the project has drawn some critical fire. Many southern Sudanese, who are black and often Christian, resent the diversion of their water to benefit the traditionally dominant Muslims of the north and of Egypt. But Sudanese officials say construction of the canal and a parallel all-weather roadway will aid the 6 million inhabitants of the south, enhancing communications and encouraging economic growth...
...their country's forces out of Lebanon. One Cabinet member, Energy Minister Yitzhak Moda'i, proposed that Israel undertake a unilateral withdrawal from certain parts of Lebanon in order to test Syrian and Lebanese intentions. Such a move would be welcomed by the Lebanese, who increasingly resent the continued Israeli occupation. Many of them blame the Israeli presence for the sporadic factional fighting between Christians and Muslims in the hilly Chouf and Aley regions a few miles southeast of Beirut. Meanwhile, the Israelis and the Lebanese have not agreed even on how to proceed with the withdrawal negotiations...
...hypocrisy and so forth in political life." Nixon is world class in dissembling (thus the Watergate shock about his private language). But other political figures in their new memoirs are now talking with some candor about-among other things-what they think of the press. They fear it, they resent it, they feel ill used...