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When Lutheran Minister D. Douglas Roth last November defied his bishop and refused to leave his church in a depressed steel town near Pittsburgh, police were called in, and Roth was jailed for 112 days. Last week a church synod voted 499 to 33 to defrock the still outspoken minister. It was only the second such action in the 22-year history of the Lutheran Church in America. Said Nadine Roth, his wife: "I guess we're like any other unemployed family...
Roth and other ministers at first enjoyed the support of the church when in 1980 they proposed to enlist Pittsburgh corporations to help laid-off steelworkers. But then they turned to confrontation, disrupting church services attended by bank and steel executives, and ignored church orders to stop. After his defrocking at last week's synod in Greenville, Pa., Roth seized the podium and refused to leave the auditorium, shouting, "There is great corruption in the church!" He was arrested again, along with a fellow dissident minister, then released on the condition that he not go near the auditorium. Said Bishop...
...many portholes, railings, air funnels and other nautical paraphernalia on his buildings. A passion for high technology dominated his first well-known works: the Leicester University Engineering Building in 1959 and the Cambridge University History Faculty Building in 1964. Both ignited controversy. Both look like acrobatic feats of steel and glass that resemble constructivist factories, highlighting mechanical gadgets like window- cleaning gantries...
...live in another world where life and death are memorized./ Where the earth is strung with lovers' pearls and all I see are dark eyes"), and images of fleeting beauty that turn into signs of prophecy ("Hunger pays a heavy price to the falling gods of speed and steel...
...heavy police convoy, Mehmet Ali Agca arrived in a high-security courtroom in Rome last week, presumably to tell a jury that he had been hired by Bulgarian intelligence officials to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. But as the 27-year-old Turk settled into his white steel cage in a former gymnasium converted to a courtroom, he had loftier matters on his mind. "I am Jesus Christ!" Agca shouted. "I am omnipotent. I announce the end of the world. All will be destroyed." The bizarre outburst in the opening moments of the trial of three Bulgarians...