Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WASHINGTON--The impression is growing in this town that Jimmy Carter may well be a one-term President. Carter was recently quoted on the radio here as saying that when he is finished being President, he'd like to become a foreign missionary for the Baptist Church. It would be his goal in such a role, said the President, "to turn some country back to God and back to us." The President may get his chance to convert all those pagans out there before he thinks...
...funeral service in St. Paul's House of Hope Presbyterian Church, a black Baptist choir mourned Humphrey's passing with stirring spirituals, and the church choir sang the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah. There were eulogies by President Carter and Vice President Mondale. The service lasted more than two hours. Said Pastor Calvin Didier, a Humphrey friend: "The only service we ever had here that ran as long as this one was when Hubert was the preacher." Afterward Muriel, in a pink dress and fur jacket, stood in the cold greeting guests, including Coretta King, whom...
...janitors have swept out the amphitheater, what exactly remains from a Billy Graham crusade? For years skeptical critics have wondered, but there has been little follow-up research on those who come forward to make public "decisions" for Jesus Christ. Last week a Graham admirer, a Baptist research executive named Win Arn, provided some...
Nonetheless, enough quantifiable information reached the computers to make Dallas the most consistently formidable club in football. Cowboy free-agent success stories are legendary. The current favorite: All-Pro Safety Cliff Harris from that renowned football hotbed Ouachita (Ark.) Baptist...
That afternoon, Carter held an unprecedented news conference for Polish and U.S. journalists. Even though the Warsaw government barred three dissident reporters from attending, it was a remarkably freewheeling session. One Polish reporter, Konstanty Jazowski, editor of a Baptist newspaper, asked Carter if he could help stop Polish Catholic discrimination against Baptists. The President ducked the question. He did so again when ABC Correspondent Sam Donaldson provocatively recalled how Carter had ridiculed Gerald Ford for wrongly claiming during a campaign debate that Poland was not dominated by Moscow. Asked Donaldson: "Do you see a day when Poland may actually...