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...Episcopal Church, where it caused profound divisions of opinion. Bishops met in emergency session over the issue, and two priests who let women celebrate Communion were convicted by ecclesiastical tribunals. Some priests threaten to bolt the church if women priests are permitted, while one bishop has vowed to resign his office if they are not. Most Episcopalians hope to muddle through and let the 1976 General Convention decide the question...
...into the apartment of the woman, a middle-aged waitress, and discovered bureau manuals, documents and reports. Some FBI officials urged prosecution, but J. Edgar Hoover's palace guard of deputies stopped the inquiry to avoid embarrassing the bureau and its boss. The agent was simply allowed to resign. The KGB also appears to have penetrated the FBI in 1961. In this case, the agent suspected of giving FBI reports to the Soviets (a polygraph test on him was inconclusive) was fired on a minor technicality...
Step Aside. Finally Hathaway told President Ford that he felt ill and had lost 15 lbs. He offered to resign. Ford brushed the suggestion aside, proposing instead that Hathaway see Rear Admiral William Lukash, the President's personal physician. After an examination, Lukash promptly ordered the Interior Secretary into Bethesda Naval Medical Center. From there last week came word that Hathaway was suffering from exhaustion and "reactive depression" (for which psychiatric care has been prescribed). He also has a mild case of diabetes, which will require no insulin, only dietary control...
Other Christian Democratic leaders tried to persuade Fanfani to resign gracefully. Moro conceded that the Christian Democrats had been guilty of an "arrogance of power" for not recognizing the changing moods of youth, women and labor. He professed "solidarity" with Fanfani but firmly dissociated the fate of the party secretary from that of his own government...
...Rega had just been forced to resign as Minister of Social Welfare and personal secretary to President Isabel Perón-the positions that had made him the most powerful man in Argentina. Mrs. Perón, who has erratically governed the country since the death of her husband a year ago, was clearly in poor physical and emotional health. Argentina seemed to be teetering ever closer to economic collapse...