Word: bishops
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Point Salines airfield was the focus of the Oct. 25, 1983, invasion of Grenada (pop. 90,000), which involved 6,000 American troops and left 19 Americans dead. President Reagan's "rescue mission" followed a bloody coup in which Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was killed and extremists seized power. For more than a year afterward, the U.S. maintained a 245- member peacekeeping force on the island. Now the only remaining soldiers are two legal experts, a financial officer and some 25 U.S. Special Forces instructors who will remain until September, training the Grenadian police special service unit in counterinsurgency...
When Lutheran Minister D. Douglas Roth last November defied his bishop and refused to leave his church in a depressed steel town near Pittsburgh, police were called in, and Roth was jailed for 112 days. Last week a church synod voted 499 to 33 to defrock the still outspoken minister. It was only the second such action in the 22-year history of the Lutheran Church in America. Said Nadine Roth, his wife: "I guess we're like any other unemployed family...
...last week's synod in Greenville, Pa., Roth seized the podium and refused to leave the auditorium, shouting, "There is great corruption in the church!" He was arrested again, along with a fellow dissident minister, then released on the condition that he not go near the auditorium. Said Bishop James Crumley: "We're tired of (the controversy). We've been embarrassed by it, and it has hurt the church internally...
...support of South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, has helped spark a recent flurry of state and local divestment legislation in the U.S. Tutu scoffs at Americans who say they are concerned about how economic cutoffs might affect blacks in South Africa. "People ought ( to stop using us as alibis for not doing what they know they ought to do," he says. Many other black leaders agree. "Any movement toward the isolation of apartheid is a welcome development," says Neo Mnumazana, observer at the U.N. from the African National Congress, a black coalition party...
DIED. Robert Nathan, 91, author of more than 50 volumes of romantic poetry and wry, whimsical prose, including the novels The Bishop's Wife (1928) and Portrait of Jennie (1940), both of which were later made into successful films; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles...