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Spanish missionaries began proselytizing the Indians of the Southwestern U.S. in the middle of the 16th century, and Native American Catholics today number about 400,000. But not until last week was an Indian admitted to the church's hierarchy. In a colorful ordination Mass, combining standard Catholic liturgy with the chants and dances of the Navajo, Pueblo and Apache tribes, Donald Pelotte, 41, an Abenaki from the far-off Algonquin nation (the Northeastern U.S.) became bishop of the 45,000-member New Mexico and Arizona diocese of Gallup...
...probably the most established artist in the Southwest since Georgia O'Keefe died," said Louise J. Harpman '86, a native of Oklahoma City and expert in Southwestern...
...little (1,060 students) Rhodes College in Memphis, is a devout bottom-liner. President at age 25 of a $17 million carpet and textile business, he chucked it all in 1964 to study for the Presbyterian ministry, then in 1973 took charge of an obscure, financially rocky college called Southwestern at Memphis. In his first year he turned an operating deficit of $1.2 million into black ink, and has not been in the red since. In 1978 he took on the faculty and eliminated an all but automatic tenure system that Daughdrill says "made it impossible to recruit new faculty...
...this year. A French importer complained in the Paris daily Liberation that a routine request to import the delicacy (called cervelles and served braised in France's fashionable ! restaurants) drew a protracted silence. "No one seems able to answer our requests," said the importer. Simultaneously, authorities in France's southwestern Pacific territory, New Caledonia, began rejecting other foodstuffs from New Zealand, including 500 tons of potatoes and 60 tons of beef and mutton...
Many shippers and builders have already sailed over the edge, or come close. The U.S., which had about 20 general cargo ship lines in 1970, now has only seven. This month the Swedish government announced plans to close the country's last major commercial shipyard, Kockums, located in the southwestern port of Malmo. Thage Peterson, Sweden's Industry Minister, said the government has pumped $4.7 billion into the shipbuilding industry over the past decade, but finally decided to end the Kockums subsidies because the firm had received no new orders in more than two years. In Hong Kong, the Tung...