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...good to read that Jacob Preus has not yet determined the length of the creation days or the age of the earth...
Three cheers for Billy Graham and Jacob A.O. Preus. Not everyone in the institutional church has bowed the knee to Baal...
...world's most famous believer in inerrancy is Evangelist Billy Graham, but the most controversial hard-liner today is the Rev. Jacob A.O. Preus, 54, a Minnesota Governor's son with a Ph.D. in classics. Preus' crackdown as president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod led to the seminary walkout and the current threat of church wide schism. His personal view of Genesis includes a global flood in the Noah story and a six-day creation (though he leaves open to question how long the "days" were and how old the earth is). He believes literally in the Adam...
Mitchell's weak attempts to stonewall Neal's questioning so concerned some defense attorneys that one of them, Jacob Stein, protested to Sirica that Mitchell's "credibility" was adversely "affecting" the other defendants. Sirica had earlier shown his dissatisfaction with Mitchell's answers. He dismissed the jury and posed questions of his own about why anyone had paid the original defendants "for support of families or anything else" unless "some wrongdoing" or "some obligation" was involved. "I can't enlighten you, your honor," Mitchell replied. "I didn't have anything to do with...
Crucial Abstentions. In the wake of the visit to Havana by Senators Claiborne Pell and Jacob Javits, the resignation of Castro-hating Nixon, and the Linowitz Commission report recommending a normalization of U.S. relations with Cuba (TIME, Nov. 18), many delegates were convinced that the U.S. was ready to accept the lifting of sanctions. In fact, the American delegation did arrive in Quito intending to vote yes if an unbeatable majority developed. But as the vote neared, the aloof U.S. posture clearly worked against Cuba. An abstention frustrated a two-thirds majority almost as effectively as a negative ballot...