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...jockeying began two years ago, when a grass-roots revolt before the 1969 convention brought conservative Classicist J.A.O. ("Jack") Preus into the presidency of the denomination. But moderates remained in command of the Missouri Synod's respected Concordia Theological Seminary in St. Louis, the largest Lutheran seminary in the U.S. Preus has since consolidated power with aggressive efficiency-moderates say with ruthlessness. Though a number of opponents stayed in untouchable jobs around him, he carefully nurtured grassroots support. The moderates' main complaint against their president stems from an investigation he launched last year at Concordia in response...
...immigrants in 1878, was the first Jewish agricultural settlement in modern Palestine. The rocketing, along with guerrilla forays elsewhere-a bazooka barrage on the Lebanese border, a skirmish on the Golan Heights, a grenade explosion in Ashkelon-coincided with a meeting in Cairo of the 155-member guerrilla high command, the Palestine National Council. It also occurred during the four-day visit of West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel, who conferred with Israeli officials and visited the Yad Va'shem memorial to the 6,000,000 victims of the Holocaust, and the Wailing Wall, where he donned a yarmulke...
...spotted in the crowd. A complaint was filed with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, which referred the matter to its complaints committee. When the committee reports, Judge Sullivan might be officially reprimanded or suspended from his $25,000-a-year job. His critics question whether a judge can command respect for the law if he breaks it, and how impartially he could preside at a case of any accused demonstrator that might come before him. Judge Sullivan argues that he has a private responsibility as a citizen. "Don't talk to me about impropriety," he says. "The time...
...have a reputation as a drug user, and he died of a heart attack. The son of an admiral, Morrison got a master's degree from UCLA before beginning to intone his long, theatrical poems to dark, eerie, thundering rock. His orgiastic performances and his command, "Come on, baby, light my fire," turned on teeny-boppers by the millions, but his mood was often more apocalyptic: "Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection!" he protested against the ravaging of the earth...
...public schools, but we could keep a child in the [Catholic] schools for only $37 a year in state aid." But the new measures-tediously dubbed "parochiaid"-have raised a troublesome question. Do they purchase parochial school survival at the price of violating the First Amendment's command to make "no law respecting an establishment of religion...