Word: revs
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Died. The Rev. Cyril Richardson, 67, specialist in early Christian literature and history, and a longtime advocate of the ordination of women; following a heart attack; in Manhattan. An Episcopalian, Richardson was a member of the faculty of New York City's Union Theological Seminary from 1934 to 1974. As early as 1951 he argued that the true Christian society was one in which male and female were "complementary to each other" and "equal in the sense that neither has priority...
...church-membership drama erupted unexpectedly in the closing days of the campaign. The week before the election, a flamboyant black minister, the Rev. Clennon King, 60, decided to test church policy. Apparently after hearing that Carter said he presumed blacks were eligible for membership, King informed the church that he would apply on Sunday, Oct. 31. He also told the press. Come Sunday, he traveled the 30 miles from his home town of Albany, Ga. (pop. 80,000), only to find the church door locked, services suspended, and the minister, the Rev. Bruce Edwards, awaiting him outside...
...Geneva Conference on Rhodesia remains stalemated-which it has been since it convened at the end of October. All that seems to be keeping the conference alive is a reluctance by Smith and Rhodesia's four black nationalist leaders-Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole-to bear the blame for torpedoing Rhodesia's last real hope of avoiding a bloody civil...
...ties to the guerrillas, was tempered as he expressed "preparedness to pursue the method of peaceful negotiations." He quickly cautioned, though, that if the current talks failed there would be no choice but to continue "war in the pursuit of peace." The most conciliatory of the four blacks, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, credited the Rhodesians for having the good sense to accept the "new political reality" and the principle of majority rule...
...Rev. Thomas F. Powers, chaplain for the Harvard Catholic Students Center, said yesterday he believes the new policy respects the right of students who disagree with the program to withdraw from it entirely. Powers acknowledged that many consider abortion coverage important--a sign, perhaps, that those who oppose non-therapeutic abortions will probably be satisfied with the UHS policy...