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...before breaking off and forming their own action-oriented splinter group. In December, Oregon Senator Robert Packwood and his family received police protection after an informant told the FBI that the Aryan Nations planned to assassinate Packwood, a strong supporter of Israel. Aryan Nations and its "Church of Jesus Christ Christian" are run by Richard G. Butler, 66, a former flight engineer who moved to Idaho from California in 1973. Butler has claimed to have a mailing list of 6,000 names for the literature that he prints at his 20-acre compound. During the summer he sponsors wellattended conferences...
Butler's Church of Jesus Christ Christian is part of the so-called Identity movement, which claims Jesus was an Aryan and that white Anglo-Saxons, rather % than the Jews, are the true chosen people. The A.D.L. says Identity beliefs have influenced the Klan and many other white supremacist groups. A prominent spokesman for the movement is William P. Gale of the Ministry of Christ Church in Mariposa, Calif., once a member of General Douglas MacArthur's staff. Gale has worked closely with Posse Comitatus, a right-wing antitax organization active in the Midwest. In 1983, Posse Comitatus Member Gordon...
...Episcopalians and the United Church of Christ have each scheduled formal discussions this year on the site problem; in each case, however, the national staff and Eastern establishment probably have the clout to forestall any move. The newly merged Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will decide next year where to locate denominational headquarters, and some believe the majority will be against New York. Three Lutheran branches are also merging, and in September a committee will probably recommend a midwestern city for the new headquarters...
...land the potential New York refugees. No one is doing so more actively than the persuasive mayor of Indianapolis, William Hudnut III, a Presbyterian clergyman who helped engineer the nighttime raid of Baltimore's Colts last year. His city is already home to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and Hudnut is quietly but insistently hymning the praises of Indianapolis to various Protestant officials. Some church staffers, accustomed to the cosmopolitan lures of New York, are shuddering at the prospect of a town that once kiddingly called itself Dullsville. Even if none of the restive churches wind up in Indianapolis...
...director general, Carlo Pietrangeli, and their secretary-treasurer, Walter Persegati, is one of the most courageous ever made in the field of art conservation. The work has three stages and will take until 1992. The years 1980 to 1984 saw the cleaning of the lunettes, depicting the ancestors of Christ--until now the least visible part of Michelangelo's immense scheme. The years 1985 to 1988 will be spent on the ceiling and spandrels--the figures of the giant nudes, the prophets and the sibyls, and the narrative of the Old Testament. The last four years are reserved...