Nation IN BRIEF : ARIZONA : Church Rebuke of Bush Proposed

Liberal clergy at the Episcopal Church convention in Phoenix said that they would seek to have the denomination formally rebuke President Bush, its most prominent member, for pursuing “evil” economic and military policies. Liberal clergy and lay deputies at the convention have presented a motion that charges the Bush Administration encourages “racist attitudes,” backs Third World covert operations and “robs the poor and the middle class” with “inordinate” military spending. Father Michael Kendall, archdeacon in charge of Episcopal parishes in New York, predicted a vote by diocesan deputies would come next week.