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...looked like a reunion of the best and the brightest, as four former architects of U.S. foreign policy sat together at a crowded press conference in Washington Last week. Spokesman for the group was Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968. Flanking him were McGeorge Bundy, National Security Adviser to John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson; George F. Kennan, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union and the grand old man of U.S. diplomacy; and Gerard Smith, chief negotiator of SALT...
Religious Reunion...
...commission believes such matters can be settled more easily once a broad commitment to reunion is under way. To that end, the commission calls for the "establishment of a new relationship between our churches," and Pope John Paul and Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie have been asked to appoint a follow-up group to work out the practical steps necessary to produce reunion. One likely form of such a reunion would involve not an absorption of Anglicans into the existing Church of Rome, but a confederation of distinct, spiritually united, sister churches...
...Catholic commission participant says it will be difficult "to win grass-roots approval of what has been done." An early test of that, on the Anglican side, will come in two months when John Paul goes to England, the first visit ever by a Pope. With news of the reunion proposals having leaked, there are already signs of resistance. Last week Archbishop of Canterbury Runcie was forced to abandon a speech on Catholic relations when 150 members of the Liverpool congregation he was addressing staged a noisy protest...
When the actress Dame Judith Anderson (Rebecca) took Robinson Jeffers' adaptation of Euripides' Medea on tour in 1947, the company included Bit Player Zoe Caldwell. In a theatrical reunion, Dame Judith, 84, Robert Whitehead, who produced the original version, and Caldwell (now Mrs. Whitehead) are restaging the updated treatment of the classic Greek drama at Washington's Kennedy Center. This time round, Caldwell takes on the taxing title role, and Dame Judith, retired from the stage for the past decade, plays the role of the nurse. Dame Judith was jumpy about returning to the boards. Says...