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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...organized and lackluster, depending too often on philosophical position papers and rambling speeches on subjects like "the status of ethics in politics." Often he seemed to be skirting the issues. For example, when Luken backed a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion-an emotional topic in a district that has many Roman Catholic voters-Gradison said that he had to give it more study...
What changed his mind? The boycott, organized by the A.C.W.A. and vigorously supported by high-powered politicians and even the Roman Catholic bishop of El Paso, turned Farah's 1971 profit of $6 million into losses of $8.3 million in 1972. Farah stock, soaring at $56 the day the strike was called, closed at $8 the Friday before the settlement. Quite as important, National Labor Relations Board and court decisions during the long battle consistently favored the strikers. When the NLRB ruled early last month that Farah must let union organizers enter his plants (TIME, Feb. 11), he apparently...
...Stendahl report, published in November, recommends the establishment of a Board of Preachers limited to three persons: a Protestant minister, a Roman Catholic priest, and a Jewish rabbi. This would eliminate the single post of Preacher to the University which currently entails responsibility for all facets of religious life. In its place, only three specific groups are granted recognition, resulting in direct representation for some instead of virtual representation for all. With one preacher, all people are represented; with three, only the followers of each may be said to have a voice...
...welcome refuge. But even in Bavaria times are changing. Among other innovations, a bishop can now give special permission to a woman to celebrate the Eucharist. Irritated by this incursion, three Bavarian Lutheran pastors have fled their church in recent months and have begun studies to become Roman Catholic priests...
After 20 hours of fighting, the rebels retreated. In their wake they left hundreds dead; the central marketplace, the Roman Catholic Cathedral and more than half of the town were in smoldering ruins. More than 25,000 refugees were without shelter, water and rice; another 35,000 fled by boat to Zamboanga on Mindanao-an island that itself is racked with Moslem insurgency...