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...Texas Senator John Tower and New York Representative Jack Kemp. The new formulation favors Southern and Western states because Nixon is more likely to win them. These states would be overrepresented in 1976. Complained Charles Lanigan: "This plan freezes the Republican Party into the same sectional politics that has torn us apart in the past. I fear the party has forgotten how to be a national party...
...Greek Orthodoxy was in a shambles when Athenagoras arrived. Like other immigrant churches, it was torn by the politics of the old country, and Greece had been riven for decades by the struggle between royalists and republicans. In 1922 the new Ecumenical Patriarch, Meletios Metaxakis, had canonically severed the American church from Athenian authority and made it subject to the Patriarch of Constantinople. Despite the disjuncture, political passions continued to divide parishes...
...bring down rates. He has asked the state legislature for authority to make those companies organize assigned-risk "pools" similar to those used by auto insurers to cover any customers who cannot find a firm willing to insure them. Last week, while other state officials in the flood-torn Northeast were praising relief efforts, Denenberg excoriated federal officials for not having publicized federal flood insurance. "A lot of people would have been better off if they had tossed a match to their homes before leaving them," he said. "At least most of them had fire insurance coverage...
...held by practically all the nations of the world. No Machiavellian Communist could have designed a better trap to ruin us. And the dilemma will not end with the coming of peace, for we will be obliged to provide billions of dollars for the restoration of a war-torn land...
...TIME, April 3). A poll of Episcopal Church ministers has indicated that 41% would refuse to serve as ministers of a united COCU church. The United Methodist Church reaffirmed its participation in COCU in April, but its commitment to final union is less certain. Three Black Methodist denominations are torn between the ideal of Christian unity and the new emphasis on black identity. The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) would likely be the last to abandon the movement...