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...Church. These groups have since spread all across the Soviet Union, drawing mainly farmers and laborers. Like Baptists in Western Europe and the U.S., they do not baptize infants but immerse persons who decide individually to become Christians. They enjoy biblical preaching and robust singing as much as they abhor drinking and smoking. They differ from Western Baptists by observing traditional church feast days like Trinity Sunday, the day on which President Nixon visited. More important, the All-Union Council uses district superintendents to supervise local churches and name pastors, while Baptist congregations in the West are autonomous...
...executive council of the student government, which disapproved of the demonstration, sent a letter of apology to the gymnasium saying "the student leaders abhor what has taken place and will take every means in our power to rectify the deplorable situation...
Psychopolitical Ploy. Many conservative Republicans who abhor controls would welcome decisive measures instead of soothing words. The best evidence suggests that Nixon and his advisers believe that their economic course is right and that things will eventually improve. But the suspicion that their public optimism is a psychopolitical ploy will not go away. Said Nancy Travis, a secretary in Santa Monica: "The Administration is so worried about being reelected, it's immobilized. They seem to be afraid of alienating anybody." The result could be alienating almost everybody...
...Martha Mitchell on the phone again, this time speaking her mind to the Washington Star. "I resent, regret and abhor that the news media has (sic) taken upon itself to interfere with possible lines of communication with the Viet Cong," announced Martha. Criticizing the continued publication of the Pentagon papers, she blasted "the indiscreet judgment that smells of political implications on the part of the press, which has reached such an extent that it may result in complete suppression of the press-in which event it will have caused its own death." Though it may have come as a surprise...
...account. Though the manifesto in fact antagonized a good many churchmen, it may have helped release literally millions of dollars for expanded or new programs to aid minority groups, especially blacks. White churchmen generally deny that they are acting in direct response to the manifesto, whose revolutionary appeal they abhor. But in a number of denominations, there is evidence of a heightened effort to overcome the racial and social problems the manifesto dramatized. The churchmen are exercising control over their money and for the most part are not financing radicals. But they are giving. Items...