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...measure Mandela's trip was a success before he ever set out. "This is the consolidation of the political credibility of the A.N.C.," declares the Rev. William Howard, past president of the National Council of Churches and a 20-year veteran of the antiapartheid fight in the U.S. "Four or five years ago, the very top leadership couldn't even get a meeting with the person on the Africa desk at the State Department. Now the President has invited Mandela to the White House, and everybody wants to meet with...
...note. Next fall he will work with the same musicians in Suite for Kindergarten, a piece he commissioned. One PBS special was broadcast last Thanksgiving; another will air next year. Random House is currently offering a seven-figure contract for the next collection of his thoughts. And the Rev. Robert Fulghum bobs in his houseboat on Lake Washington in Seattle, staring at the words of Matthew...
...article Monday about the newly elected members of Harvard's Board of Overseers, The Crimson misidentified the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh's institutional affiliation. He is president emeritus of Notre Dame...
Meeting in the appropriately outsize New Orleans Superdome, delegates blessed the Fundamentalists, voting in as S.B.C. president the Rev. Morris Chapman of Wichita Falls, Texas. He outpolled an Atlanta moderate, the Rev. Daniel Vestal, 21,471 to 15,753. Like all presidents since 1979, Chapman will use his nominating powers to consolidate inerrantist control of S.B.C. schools and agencies. The meeting also gutted funding for a Washington office representing various Baptist denominations in favor of an S.B.C. lobby that will buttress the religious right on such matters as abortion and school prayer...
Mandela holds a special place in the feelings of American civil rights campaigners, liberals and black activists. During the Reagan years, when such forces were dispirited and often divided, opposition to apartheid and support for Mandela provided them with a unifying passion. No leader since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has brought together such a diverse coalition in the fight against racial injustice...