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...DIED. WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR., 81, charismatic, controversial civil-rights agitator who shot to national fame in the late 1960s as the scooter-riding, antiwar chaplain of Yale University; in Strafford, Vermont. The United Church of Christ minister, known for having been arrested in the South during civil-rights protests in the early '60s, rankled Washington politicians with his voluble attacks on the Vietnam War. In 1968, he was convicted with Dr. Benjamin Spock for conspiracy to encourage draft evasion, after Coffin delivered to the Justice Department more than 100 draft cards they had collected at antiwar rallies. (The conviction...
...Born and raised in Strafford, Pa., Henderson grew up with dreams of flying warplanes—a goal that would stay with...
...Born and raised in Strafford, Pa., Henderson grew up with dreams of flying warplanes—a goal that would stay with...
BORN: Jan. 10, 1950, Niangua EDUCATION: Southwest Baptist U, B.S., 1970; Southwest Missouri State U, M.A., 1972 FAMILY: Wife, Roseann; three children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: University president; teacher POLITICAL CAREER: Greene County clerk, 1972-84; Missouri Secretary of State, 1985-93 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 278, Strafford...
Politicians from Governor John Sununu on down have lined up to denounce the manual and block its distribution. Says Strafford County Commissioner Paul Dumont: "We let those guys out of the closet ten years ago. I think we should put them back in." He and his fellow commissioners voted to freeze spending for the county's Prenatal Family Planning Clinic, which paid for the development of the manual during three years of work by community groups, schools and youth organizations...