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Press, 25 August 1986, Page 10

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Married priests,

yes ...

Nearly one United States Catholic bishop out of four would be willing to let a priest get married, but only 8 per cent would ordain a woman priest, a poll in the "Los Angeles Times” newspaper says. The poll was conducted by the Rev. Terrance Sweeney, who resigned from the Jesuit order rather than submit to .Vatican pressure to keep the poll results secret Father Sweeney said 145 of the 312 American bishops had replied to his questionnaire. Thirty-five of them said they would approve of bachelorhood being optional .for priests instead of rafandatory. — Los Angel®

Missile tested

An American MX missile carrying nine dummy warheads flew 6758 km to a target area in the Pacific Ocean at the week-end, completing the thirteenth test launch of the missile. The missile was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California, and for the first time delivered its unarmed warheads to two separate locations in the Kwajelein Missile Range, the Pentagon said. The MX will carry 10 independently targetable warheads, each with a range of more than 9654 km. The Air Force plans to have 10 MX missiles in silos at an Air Force base in the western state of Wyoming by December. — Washington.

S4M settlement

The family of a man killed at a Rolling Stones concert at Houston in 1981 will receive a SUS 4.7 million ($9.4 million) settlement The wife, son, and mother of Wesley Allen Shelton sued after the 22-year-old machinist was stabbed to death near a concession stand at the Astrodome as the British rock group played on stage. A probate judge approved SUSI.I million ($2.2 million) portion of the settlement designated for the son, Ernest Scott Shelton, aged 6. The money will be paid in several instalments over 24 years and will not be subject to taxes or lawyers’ fees. — Houston, Texas

Soviet envoy held

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Soviet employee of the United Nations and charged him with espionage after intercepting classified material he was trying to buy. The F. 8.1. "foiled an attempt” by Gennadiy Fedorovich Zakharov “to obtain classified information of the U.S. Government” at a Queens, New York, subway stop, said the agency's director, Mr William Webster. Zakharov, aged 40, was a scientific affairs officer assigned to the Centre for Science and Technology Development at ... the United Nations Secretariat in hfew York. — l