Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bishop Henry Reimer, the Mennonites' spiritual leader, visited farm land in Missouri and Oklahoma before deciding on west Texas?in part because someone in Texas apparently assured him that his people would automatically receive U.S. citizenship if they bought land there. Settlers from both Canada and Mexico then sold their homes, pooled their savings and paid $455,000 down ($264 an acre, about $70 more per acre than the going price) on the $1.7 million, 6,400-acre Seven-O Ranch outside of Seminole, a town that calls itself "the city with a future." They drew lots for the land...
...declared Bishop Abel Muzorewa, one of the four members of Rhodesia's biracial "interim" government, in a stem-winding speech to a group of black and white voters at the close of the country's historic ten-week election campaign. His vision of his violence-racked land's future was important, for he is soon to become the first black Prime Minister of Rhodesia, or Zimbabwe-Rhodesia as it is henceforth to be known. Last week voting for the first time on the basis of a universal balloting, the country's black population elected 72 members of a new parliament...
...troublemaker. And if someone doesn't like you, he can go to the guerrillas and tell them something which isn't true and they become your enemy." Though he is a Muzorewa supporter, he was once beaten so badly by black militiamen loyal to the bishop that he had to be hospitalized; the militiamen accused him of not informing on Patriotic Front guerrillas...
Rhodesian Bishop Abel Muzorewa, whose Black United African National Council is expected to win the upcoming elections, defended the raids...
...NOTEBOOK: The unquestionable highlight of the weekend was the taped organ music played between innings at Navy's Bishop Stadium (which features the renowned Foster Memorial Scoreboard...