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Preus has had to buck a strong religious trend. Most mainstream U.S. Protestants-and even many Roman Catholics-nowadays tolerate a wide diversity of theological opinion, and until Preus' election in 1969, the Missouri...
...authoritative Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches reports that U.S. membership in religious bodies slipped last year to 131,245,139. Though the decline was slight (about 180,000), it was the first that the Yearbook has recorded in nearly three decades, and reflected eroding membership in the mainstream liberal Protestant denominations: the United Methodists, Episcopalians, United Presbyterians, the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). In such groups, jobs are lacking not so much for new graduates as for mid-career preachers seeking better churches...
...loud sound and often witless lyrics of the past decade. Lately the public has grown more easy with loneliness and love gone wrong as celebrated in country music. Now, with the release of her LP Pieces of the Sky (Reprise), Emmylou Harris seems about to swim into the rich mainstream of popular music. As Emmylou sums it up: "After all the auditions in plush New York offices for men wearing sunglasses, all of a sudden the music I have always done is becoming accepted...
...only the world "Veritas" chiseled into the stone wall. We learn not to see the young men drafted into fighting a war for American business, and see only a struggle for democratic ideals. We learn not to see the old and unemployed--those who become isolated from mainstream society by being denied participation in the economy--and see only the opportunities which exist for the rest...
From the outset, it was clear that Kissinger did not share the mainstream American view that the Israelis were right in refusing to return territories occupied in the Six Day War until the Arab states granted Israel diplomatic recognition. Then as now, the Secretary of State felt that Israel should be prepared to return the occupied territories for less extensive concessions. His handling of American policy during the October War gave clear in cation of how he analyzed the situation Kissinger saw another massive Israeli victory as potentially detrimental to both achieving a settlement in the area, and more importantly...