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Captains: Michael Bergmann, Bil. Pennoyer, and Richard van den Broek...
...credit will hardly solve the ongoing crisis. Latin American nations remain saddled with a total of $360 bil- lion in foreign loans, and the World Bank estimates that total Third World debt will pass the $1 trillion mark by year...
Like many mainline Protestant groups, the Presbyterians are rich ($1.2 bil lion in contributions last year) but have been suffering from a slippage in membership. Since 1968, the rolls have shrunk by 1 million, with a decrease of 35,000 last year. The 278-year-old U.S. church is troubled by hostility between Evangelicals and social activists in matters as diverse as theology, foreign missions and ecumenism. For 122 years, the Southern and Northern wings of the church were separate entities. Last year they reunited, and Andrews and Thompson have served as Co-Stated Clerks on an interim basis. Says...
...first sheriff of Independence, Mo., the first white man to lead a party to the brink of the Yosemite Valley and the first to lead a wagon train into California, in 1843. Frontiersman Joseph Walker, says Biographer Bil Gilbert, "should have become a gaudy boon to the toy and TV industries" like his contemporary, Kit Carson. The reason he did not: Walker's stubborn refusal to embroider his achievements for legend-hungry Eastern journalists. So they "moved on to men and events that could be conventionally romanticized...
...Westering Man offers an unfamiliar frontier landscape. Here, the Indians are con men, whisky distilling is a regional pastime, and meteorites terrify intrepid explorers. The mood is antic, but the True West is not always the most appealing of places. Still, Joseph Walker is its true exemplar, and Bil Gilbert is its true celebrator. Those in search of myth should try Louis L'Amour or Zane Grey...