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Psychological Boost. By far the greater part of his speech was given over to the growing crisis in the breakaway British colony of Rhodesia. In a ten-point program that will form the basis for what Kissinger called "unrelenting opposition" to Salisbury, he put Washington squarely behind British Prime Minister James Callaghan's March 22 proposal for majority rule in Rhodesia within two years. Blacks presently outnumber whites in the country, 6.1 million to 278,000, but have no effective voice in the government...
...protesters in front of the St. Louis headquarters of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. The demonstration was aimed at Dr. Jacob A.O. Preus, conservative head of the denomination, who this month fired four district presidents (roughly equivalent to bishops). Their sin: ordaining graduates of Seminex, the breakaway school from the synod's Concordia Seminary that was founded during the Lutherans' long-running doctrinal dispute over biblical interpretation (TIME, March 4, 1974). The dismissed leaders, who favor a flexible view of the Scriptures, head three districts which cover a large area of the Northeast and the English District, with...
...roar of the crowd, smashes into Koloff's chest. Koloff staggers while the boy behind me, his band on the thigh of his hard-faced date, continues to shriek, "Kill, Bruno, Kill." Moments later, as Bruno smashes Koloff on the head with a wooden chair (not the Hollywood breakaway variety) the crowed swarms like jackals in a feeding frenzy against the plexiglass enclosing the ring. It is obvious that the mere defeat of the villain will not satisfy them--they howl for blood, for dismemberment...
...between the country's 278,000 whites and 6.1 million blacks now appear to be spent. Negotiations between Rhodesia's white Prime Minister, Ian Smith, and the country's leading black moderate, Joshua Nkomo, have collapsed. Britain's offer to resume transitional control of its breakaway colony, predicated on elections leading to black majority rule within two years, was summarily rejected by Salisbury...
...owners feared chaos in baseball: the mass breakaway of players who as free agents would sell their services to the highest bidders, raising superstar salaries out of sight and tilting the competitive balance of the leagues to the clubs with the most money. Oakland Slugger Reggie Jackson, for one, seemed a super star likely to put himself on the open market. To add fuel to the fears, Los Angeles Dodger Pitcher Andy Messersmith, armed with his December arbitration victory, began entertaining bids last week from at least four teams. Nonetheless, the owners finally "bit the bullet," said American League President...