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...latest tour from the National Council of Churches, go to the Soviet Union and make up entirely new meanings for words like freedom. "We believe they are free,"said N.C.C. Tour Leader Bruce Rigdon of the McCormick Theological Seminary, referring to Soviet demonstrators thrown out of Moscow's Baptist Church. And some go to the Middle East, on which they pronounce solemn, chin-tugging judgment full of right and wrong and anguished ambivalence, to make up rules-for others. There are so many of these travelers that the Middle East has become, in Saul Bellow's words...
...Senators enjoy the reputation for personal integrity that Mark Odom Hatfield, the courtly, square-jawed Oregon Republican, has earned in his 18 years on Capitol Hill. A deeply religious Baptist, Hatfield, 62, was one of the first Senators to oppose the Viet Nam War and was in the forefront of the nuclear-freeze movement. But last week, to the dismay of friends and colleagues, Hatfield found himself under investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee and the FBI. The issue: whether four payments totaling $40,000 to Hatfield's wife constituted a bribe to win the Senator's backing...
...slowness to repudiate the anti-Semitic rantings of the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan. "We are much too intelligent, much too bound by our Judeo-Christian heritage . . . much too threatened as historical scapegoats, to go on divided, one from another." His face glistening by now, the Baptist preacher closed on an upbeat note. "Our time has come. Our faith, hope and dreams have prevailed. Our time has come." The emotional night ended as delegates, black and white, clasped hands high and swayed rhythmically to a stirring spiritual, Ordinary People...
...Jackson's remarks were careless, to say the least. Jewish voters remain deeply suspicious of the Baptist Preacher because of his support of Palestinian causes, and they have not forgotten his tardy repudiation of incendiary Black Muslim Leader Louis Farrakhan, a onetime Jackson surrogate, who characterized Judaism as "a dirty religion" only a month ago. Henry Siegman, Executive Director of the American Jewish Congress, demanded that Democratic leaders "finally repudiate" Jackson and warned that their continued association with him "can only lead to disaster...
Reagan unabashedly used Scoop, but did so in a way that honored his memory, his family and his country. The President threw out his big arms and gathered everybody in-Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, Jew, Baptist, old, young, hawk, dove, hardhat, tycoon. And none of them could argue, only lean back and enjoy the political theater that Reagan had adroitly and effortlessly stage-managed...