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Wearing flowing white ecclesiastical robes, the Rev. John Tietjen, leader of the Missouri Synod's breakaway liberal faction, delivered that bitter eulogy last week from a pulpit set up in an auditorium at the O'Hare Inn near Chicago. It was what his 1,600 listeners wanted to hear. They were members of Evangelical Lutherans in Mission (E.L.I.M.), a dissident group that has been warring openly with the conservative hierarchy of the 2.8 million-member denomination. Tietjen's lament for the church underlined the fact that the Missouri Synod's conservative leadership is now firmly...
...satisfies neither the colonialists nor the colonials. General Francisco Costa Gomes, the armed forces commander in chief, made a sudden flying visit to Angola to reassure the 750,000 white settlers there that "Mother Portugal" would not abandon them. He was obviously concerned about heading off a Rhodesian-style breakaway by the oil-rich colony. Gomes also offered the liberation fighters a cease-fire until self-determination can be negotiated. The guerrillas' response was immediate: "We refuse to be considered as black Portuguese," said Georges Paulo Texeira, spokesman for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola...
...victory especially pleased the water poloists, because in a pre-season match, a Huskie illegally dragged senior captain Phil Jonckheer down from behind on a breakaway, putting Jonckheer out for the season with a severe back injury...
Saturday night's match proved equally physical but more costly to Northeastern. With Harvard trailing 4-3, Bozer found himself in a breakaway, but a Northeastern defender nabbed him from behind illegally. Bozer capitalized on the infraction and sent the game into its first overtime with a successful penalty shot...
...Bhutto announced that Pakistan would recognize its breakaway eastern wing at the Lahore summit meeting of Moslem leaders in February. More surprising was Pakistan's formal acknowledgment in the agreement that the prisoners had, in Bangladesh's words, committed "war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide." The Pakistan government "condemned and deeply regretted any crimes that may have been committed...