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Ever since the Episcopal Church's General Convention voted in favor of women priests and a modernized Prayer Book in 1976, angry U.S. traditionalists have been laying plans for a breakaway. All efforts at Episcopal peacemaking proved unavailing, and now the schism is a fact...
...Crimson came out smoking, as they jumped to an early 8-2 lead on buckets by Susan Hewitt and Caryn Curry. While Dartmouth was looking inside, Harvard worked on the breakaway and crisp passing around the key to open a comfortable first-period advantage...
Gregg Shephard had a breakaway attempt with the Bruins short-handed but Michelle Plasse foiled him with a brilliant save, picking his right leg off the ice in time to block a short Shephard shot with his thigh. In the last 60 seconds Rick Middleton almost made it 3-2 but his failure sent the game into the eventful final period...
Dressed in a blazing red sari, Mrs. Gandhi sat cross-legged on the dais while she was unanimously elected president of the breakaway group, which calls itself the legitimate Congress Party. In her 45-minute speech, she attacked the policies of Morarji Desai, who had succeeded her as Prime Minister after her humiliating defeat in last March's election. She also told her supporters that they should be "prepared to go to the jails and fill them in large numbers"-a prospect that was likely to become as unpopular with politicians as her mass sterilization program had proved...
Indeed, not one other political figure of national stature showed up for the breakaway convention in Delhi. Instead, party regulars denounced Mrs. Gandhi's election as preposterous, complaining that her group had illegally appropriated the name of the rightful Congress Party. In swift retaliation, nine members of the party executive committee expelled Mrs. Gandhi from the party that she had dominated for over a decade. Declared one committee member, Priya Ranjan Das Munshi: "The cancer is out, and we are not carrying the burden of Mrs. Gandhi any more." In reply, Mrs. Gandhi expelled Munshi and the entire executive...