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Publication of the letter, which was originally sent last July, had tactical significance in the ongoing reunion negotiations. For 17 years the president of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, Willebrands may have had an eye cocked at the five-day in-camera meeting this week in Toronto of the heads of all 28 autonomous branches of world Anglicanism. By releasing the document now, Rome also seeks to provoke hard ecumenical thinking in advance of the 1988 Lambeth Conference, the once-a- decade meeting that embraces some 600 Anglican bishops around the world...
During his five-day stay, the Prince met Governor Mark White, toured a San Antonio urban renewal project, and visited the battlefield where General Sam Houston won Texas' independence from Mexico. He also walked through a Houston oil refinery, where the falling price of oil is doing more harm to Texas than Santa Anna ever did at the Alamo: state tax revenues from oil could fall by $1 billion this year. After presenting a Winston Churchill Award to Dallas Businessman H. Ross Perot for his "bold imagination, pioneering spirit and dynamic leadership," Charles left for California. Despite his princely welcome...
...delivered to the huts by toboggan. Their partners are David Ayer, 37, a financial planner from Massachusetts, and his wife Lexa, 36, who split their time between Boston and Stanley. Ayer proposed to Lexa outside one of the Sawtooth yurts four years ago, after the third day of a five-day tour. It was -48 degrees F, and he wanted to see whether she had the right attitude toward touring...
...strangest twist yet came last week, as the state's Republican Governor and Democratic legislature struggled over a prison-reform bill. The corrections commissioner, Stephen Norris, was ordered jailed for contempt of court. Although Norris was spared a five-day prison sentence by an appeals court, Governor Lamar Alexander called the incident the "most bizarre, strange, weird and unusual set of events I've seen as Governor...
...group of U.S. mayors enjoyed a soiree with administrators and students last night at the Fogg Museum, taking a breather during a five-day conference at the Kennedy School...