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Until Schiess filed the complaints, the dispute had stayed within the Episcopal Church, where it caused profound divisions of opinion. Bishops met in emergency session over the issue, and two priests who let women celebrate Communion were convicted by ecclesiastical tribunals. Some priests threaten to bolt the church if women priests are permitted, while one bishop has vowed to resign his office if they are not. Most Episcopalians hope to muddle through and let the 1976 General Convention decide the question...
...double-digit inflation. But the figures do indicate more inflation than had been anticipated. One top Ford Administration economist, who had been estimating that prices would be rising at a 6% rate at year's end, now privately predicts 7%. Any prolonged new surge of inflation could threaten the recovery itself by making consumers turn cautious and reduce the spending that has been lifting the nation out of its slump...
Congress took care last week to ensure that no such fate should threaten high federal officials, Cabinet officers, Supreme Court Justices and the legislators themselves. Both houses passed a bill authorizing cost of living increases for some 17,000 federal officials who do not already get them and whose salaries have in many cases been frozen since 1969. The increase could be as high as 8.66%-a figure reckoned to make salaries competitive with private industry-but President Ford has indicated that he will try to hold it to 5%. Among the beneficiaries are 535 members of Congress...
...Angola and the pro-Soviet Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola has claimed an estimated 500 lives in Luanda alone. Whether it wants to or not, Lisbon will have to keep its 25,000 troops in Angola until independence in order to avoid a civil war that could threaten the safety of the 400,000 Portuguese living there. At week's end there were reports from South Africa that Portugal would begin a massive two-month airlift to rescue the white settlers. This, however, would not end the problems the settlers could pose for the triumvirate. Relocated...
...seizing power [and] bypassing democratic methods," she argued, she had to take democracy "somewhat off the rails." So far, however, Mrs. Gandhi has provided no real evidence of a sizable conspiracy. Although police raids of the offices of extremist parties produced caches of weapons, they hardly seemed sufficient to threaten a country of 600 million. Moreover the police had sufficient authority to seize the weapons without a declaration of a state of emergency. If Mrs. Gandhi fails to give more concrete proof of a dangerous conspiracy, a significant number of India's literate public will become convinced of what...