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...million-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. For six years, mustering a solid majority of conservatives in his church, Preus has been increasingly successful in making such scriptural fundamentalism (TIME cover, Dec. 30) the single acceptable norm for the church's clergy. Last week, at the denomination's biennial convention in Anaheim, Calif, he won another victory. The delegates voted to give him the power to depose a group of dissident leaders: eight of the church's 35 U.S. district presidents, who are the rough equivalent of bishops...
Although almost all arms in the West are manufactured by private companies, governments are deeply involved at nearly every step of the high-stakes operation. Pentagon and Commerce Department officials, for example, aid sales teams from U.S. arms manufacturers at the biennial Paris Air Show, where hundreds of millions of dollars of weapons business is transacted. Until recently, France's top arms salesman was Air Force General Hugues de 1'Estoile who, dressed in civilian clothes, trotted the globe seeking customers. Usually, however, it is the military attache, stationed in nearly every embassy around the world, who spots a potential...
...more outside the U.S.). In 1969 conservatives captured its leadership, and last winter nearly 400 moderate students walked out of its major seminary and established a rival seminary in exile (TIME, March 4). Now the Synod may well be facing an outright schism within its ranks, probably after its biennial convention next July...
Speaking at the council's biennial meeting, Horner advocated "equal access" to education and criticized "any kind of corporate relationship that would have to be one of submerger...
...fall under the critical gaze of CBS Correspondent Dan Rather, 42, who attends Pierotti's church when he is in Washington. Says Pierotti gamely, "He honestly tells me what he thinks about the sermon." Pierotti turned the other cheek recently and asked Rather to address the biennial convention of the Lutheran Church in America. Before an audience of 1,000 at Baltimore's Civic Center, Rather shed his hard-hitting image to offer a credo that required no instant analysis. "I believe," intoned Dan, "that one man can make a difference in what happens in the world...