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Although the fast-food bakery was recently granted a permit by the city's building commissioner, it will likely be revoked by the board...
...church or society. Dioceses are asked to establish women's commissions. Willingness to treat women as equals is a criterion of fitness for the priesthood. But the text drops previous urgings that the Vatican immediately consider letting women join the order of deacon, thus permitting them to perform many pastoral functions also filled by priests. The text weakens proposals for allowing women preachers and altar girls, which Rome rules out and American parishes routinely permit. Long gone is the suggestion of serious discussion about women as priests; instead, the ban is restated...
...Washington, Democrats in Congress introduced a bill that would permit renewal of most-favored-nation status for China only if it dramatically improves its respect for human rights, stops selling nuclear and missile technology abroad, halts unfair trade practices and gives up its pattern of copyright violations. Democratic leaders fully expect the bill to pass, but Bush is just as likely to veto it. As in past showdowns over China, Congress will probably lack the votes to override the President...
...that develop alternative, renewable energy sources like solar and wind power. It requires the government to buy vehicles that run on non- gasoline fuels, including natural gas and electricity, and promotes energy- saving standards for private construction, appliances, electric motors and lights. Like the Senate version, it does not permit oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, which President Bush had wanted to allow...
...Phyllis Schlafly, head of the Republican National Coalition for Life, insisted that neither Bush as a candidate nor the party as an institution could afford to waffle "on a high moral principle." The Bush campaign's representatives at the session quietly agreed. Campaign officials, who control the platform, will permit no compromise language and will probably be able to quash efforts to debate the issue at the Houston convention. A representative of the National Abortion Rights Action League murmured, "This is an exercise in futility...