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Chapin came to the leadership of the Met after serving as assistant to his predecessor Göran Gentele. After Gentele died in a car crash in Sardinia three years ago, Chapin functioned for an entire season as acting general manager before he was granted the full title and authority. Despite some triumphs, like Boris Godunov and The Siege of Corinth, he has never had the full support of the Met's faction-ridden board...
...Problem. The withdrawal of the bill was a humiliating setback for the conscientious Ullman, who hoped to gain the stature of his Ways and Means predecessor Wilbur Mills. Yet the defeat was less a reflection on Ullman's legislative craft than on the condition of Congress, and for that matter, of the country. Said an Ullman aide: "The problem is persuading people that there is a problem. For a lot of people, we're adding a tax to no problem." Yet the U.S. continues to buy huge quantities of oil from the Middle East, remaining perilously dependent...
...humane treatment of convicts. The President returned to the old constitutional phrase, he said, because "I do not seek vindictive punishment of the criminal, but protection of the victim." Nor was crime, he noted, always committed on the street or in dark alleys. Alluding to the misdeeds of his predecessor, he said: "I have made it a matter of the highest priority to-restore to the Executive Branch decency, honesty and adherence to the law at all levels ... There is no way to inculcate in society the spirit of law if society's leaders are not scrupulously law-abiding...
Former Defense Minister Moshe Dayan was in New York City; so was Chaim Herzog, Israel's Ambassador-designate to the U.N. Foreign Minister Yigal Allon had been in the U.S. and gone already, as had his predecessor Abba Eban and Itzhak Navon, chairman of the Knesset's committee on foreign affairs and security. Minister of Transport Gad Yaacobi and Minister of Justice Haim Zadok flew in at week's end, while Teddy Kollek, the mayor of Jerusalem, and Supreme Court Justice Haim Conn were packing their bags. Small wonder if Premier Yitzhak Rabin felt lonely in Jerusalem...
...ordinations. The national head of the church, Presiding Bishop John M. Allin, who was subpoenaed for the defense, refused to appear; as a result, at week's end he was cited for contempt by the five-judge ecclesiastical court. That left as the star witness his predecessor as presiding bishop, John Hines. When Stringfellow asked Hines his opinion of the ordinations, he replied: "I believe them to be valid but irregular." Hines, however, stated that a bishop can refuse to license an ordained minister to perform priestly functions...