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...worst-hit section of Haiti is the northwest, a region of rugged, treeless hills where only cactus and mesquite seem to flourish. There were heavy rains in November when, as Baptist Missionary Vance Brown puts it, "the people went crazy planting like they've never planted before. And then we didn't get another sniff of rain for seven months." The winter crop was lost and the spring crop, which normally would be planted in April, was never put in at all. To make matters still worse, a mysterious disease called "yellowing" has killed coconut palms that were...
...obedient wives, most of whom work as waitresses in Joseph's nearby Red Desert Inn, profess to believe in the Josephian faith. Says Joni, who turned down a $6,000 National Merit scholarship to marry him: "Polygamy provides the sense of fulfillment I never experienced at the First Baptist Church in Billings." Although polygamy is illegal, authorities have trouble prosecuting it. Says Kane County Sheriff Norman Swapp: "Sure it's against the law, but I can't even prove he's married to all those women...
...Weatherman that brought the FBI into the case at the outset. The alleged conspiracy sounds something like a Mannix plot on TV-with a few Fellini-esque wrinkles. According to the indictment, Moeller paid $50,000 in company funds to David Bubar, 47, a trim, wavy-haired Baptist minister and self-proclaimed clairvoyant from Memphis who purports to have foreseen a variety of specific deaths, illnesses and other disasters. Bubar met Moeller about ten years ago, became his spiritual guru and ultimately a director of Ohio Decorative Products. He supposedly served Sponge Rubber Products as a water-purification consultant, annoying...
...North Carolina-born son of a Baptist minister, Martin, 62, has been a Foreign Service officer for 28 years. Far from being an Indochina hawk, he actually opposed American military involvement in Viet Nam in 1963, when he was serving as Ambassador to Thailand. "In fact," he insists, "my known opposition to using U.S. troops turned Thieu off when I first arrived." Says one former colleague: "In Bangkok, he was a real professional. He was one of the few ambassadors in that part of the world who could keep the U.S. military in their country under control. In Saigon...
TRACK: The track team takes on rival Northeastern Saturday at Soldiers Field. The thinclads, coming off a loss to Baptist College April 5, will be looking to avenge winter losses to the Huskies...