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...more sensational courts-martial on record, Navy Chaplain Andrew Jensen, a Baptist minister, went on trial for conduct unbecoming an officer, accused of adultery by two women who claimed they had sexual relations with him (TIME, April 3). Last week he was acquitted at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla. Prosecutor Ralph Levy had argued that the two Navy wives would never have risked the publicity if their charges were false. "This is too high a price to pay for anything but the truth," he told the court...
...tawdry story, almost as if Confidential had rewritten Somerset Maugham's Rain for the U.S.O. In this case, the clergyman was a Baptist chaplain in the U.S. Navy, his accusers wives of fellow officers. On trial at the Jacksonville, Fla., Naval Air Station for conduct unbecoming an officer is Commander Andrew Jensen, 43, a 16-year Navy veteran, married and the graying father of two. The trial marks two embarrassing firsts for the Navy: no officer had ever stood trial solely on adultery charges, and no chaplain had ever been court-martialed...
...least of the problems created for the Navy by the trial is the heavy bombardment it is sustaining from a formidable opponent, the American Baptist Convention. The case poses a serious jurisdictional question: Should the military or Jensen's denomination have priority in handling...
...Roberts, the evening's results were less than miraculous all the way around. Davis was whisked away in an ambulance, and St. John's went on to whip O.R.U. 94-78. Davis, a Baptist, later mused from his hospital bed: "I believe what I've heard about Oral Roberts. If I had been more conscious of what was happening, maybe it would have worked...
...cook one "nice" dinner a month-and let Jo-Ann choose the next new car. Bob signed, the contract was hung on the refrigerator, and Jo-Ann promptly turned into a nag trying to enforce it. "We started beating each other over the head with contracts," says Bob, a Baptist clergyman now a consultant on race relations. "They're harder to keep than to write...