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...problem came to the fore again last week in Biloxi, Miss., for 665 delegates to the national assembly of the 3 million-member Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The Israel issue led to a dispute that stirred passions over six days before the assembly finally approved an eight-page statement. The document is probably the most amicable declaration any U.S. denomination has yet issued on Jewish-Christian relations...
...until his release last September. To him, both Jews and Palestinians have the right to a homeland. Weir is completing a year as the church's Moderator (titular head). Besides amending the section on Israel, Weir's allies, primarily churchmen who have worked in the Middle East, got the document downgraded from a church-policy statement to a study paper, pending further discussions...
...recognizes the overriding spiritual importance of the Holy Land for Jews, but it adds an expression of sympathy for Palestinians and "all people to whom rights of 'land' are currently denied." (In a separate action, the church pledged to counteract bigotry against Muslims and Arabs in the U.S.) The document also considered the touchy matter of converting Jews to Christianity. The approved text asserts that "Christians have no reason to be reluctant in sharing the good news of their faith with anyone." It adds, "Many Jews have been unwilling to accept the Christian claim and have continued in their covenant...
...respect for the continuing validity of Judaism was the important achievement of the assembly. The delegates repudiated the idea that God turned against the Jews because they rejected Jesus as the Messiah, and expressed repentance for Christianity's part in past anti-Semitism. The American Jewish Committee said the document is "potentially of great historic importance" and has "broken significant new ground...
...memo in which North urged the sinking or pirating of a Nicaraguan ship carrying arms to the Sandinistas became a bland suggestion that its cargo merely be publicized. Removed from another document was a reference to dunning "current donors" for "another $25-30 million" for contra "munitions" at a time when Congress did not know that Saudi Arabia was giving such military support. A paper that urged National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane to brief President Reagan on how the "delivery of lethal supplies" to the contras would continue despite a congressional ban emerged from Hall's racing typewriter with...