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...Episcopalians might have better luck against the proposed copper mines. After Bishop Francisco Reus-Froylan of Puerto Rico persuaded the church to hold hearings about the project, five other denominations with extensive stock in the mining companies joined the inquiry: the American Baptist Convention, the United Methodists, the United Presbyterians, the Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ. The hearings in Puerto Rico revealed cause for concern; among other things, they showed that neither government nor mining firms had made plans for relocating displaced farmers, and that no conclusive investigation of environmental hazards had been completed...
...Font's superiors allegedly told a member of the Concerned Officers' Movement, "I'm going to cut your head off and put it on a tray like John the Baptist, and I'm going to put a skewer through Lt. Font, put an apple in his mouth, and put him on the same tray...
...Branch, a Baptist preacher and schoolteacher, who sought the office that controls the issuing of deeds, land transfers, eviction notices, wills and mortgages. As with Gilmore in his race for sheriff, there was special satisfaction in his candidacy for Branch: his father had been thrown off a tenant farm when he was a youth. "There were no eviction papers ever issued, man. I'm going to look those records...
...informal coalition trying to forge a common attack on both the war and social injustice announced a three-pronged spring offensive for continuous action last night at the Old Baptist Church on Mass...
...ready to begin soliciting proxies for the next one. But General Motors is not waiting. Last week the corporation elected a black to its 23-man board. He is the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, who was once assistant pastor to Adam Clayton Powell at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, and more recently has specialized in persuading or pushing U.S. industry to hire Negro workers. His election raises the number of blacks known to be on boards of major U.S. companies to eight...