Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Asian giants were plighting their renewed affections, top Soviet officials continued their efforts to repair the 25-year-old schism between Moscow and Beijing. Last week Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Rogachev spent five days in the Chinese capital trying to negotiate a compromise on the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Kampuchea, one of China's "three obstacles" to better relations with Moscow. But the talks ended without a settlement, dampening hopes for a 1988 Sino-Soviet summit meeting...
...party harmony. There is nervousness, to be sure, over Jesse Jackson's failure to receive the respect and deference he craves and deserves. Will he, in the end, yield gracefully or grudgingly to the inevitability of Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen? Could the Dukakis-Jackson rift result in a lasting schism along racial lines? Such tensions are serious, but a party built around uneasy coalitions should be used to them...
Next comes the creation of women bishops. Though women nominated for the hierarchy failed to win in three U.S. dioceses this year, the election of the first woman bishop appears inevitable and could occur as early as this fall. That prospect has produced fresh mutterings of schism. Last week both the Episcopal Church and its overseas parent, the Church of England, embraced ) awkward compromises to advance the cause of women clergy while mollifying members who refuse to accept them...
...more than 6,000 worshipers in attendance, the ceremony in an Alpine meadow near the Swiss hamlet of Econe was deeply moving. To the Vatican, it was anathema. By consecrating four bishops against Rome's wishes, traditionalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, 82, opened the first schism in the Roman Catholic Church in eight decades. The result: instant excommunication for Lefebvre and his new prelates...
Rebel Archbishop Lefebvre vows to consecrate four ultra- traditionalist bishops. Result: the first Catholic schism in a century...