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...Humphrey managed to leave behind a legacy of liberal legislation that has survived three Republican Administrations. In a 1977 poll of 1,000 leading Capitol Hill figures, he was named the top Senator of the past 75 years. (Humphrey, then fatally ill with cancer, responded to the news: "Jesus Christ, Lyndon Johnson's going to be sore as hell about this.") Solberg, whose biography is the first to benefit from Humphrey's papers at the Minnesota Historical Society, recounts his subject's career in impressive detail, but stumbles when he tries to explain Humphrey's self...
...Born in Montevideo, Castro was one of nine children of a Spanish immigrant mother and Chilean father. The family was Roman Catholic, but as a youth he played with children from a nearby Methodist church. Says Castro, a short, slender man with an infectious smile: "I ultimately found Jesus Christ through my personal contacts. It was not a church-to-church conversion...
...their praise. Elbert Cheatham, 44, of Lynchburg, Va., was accused by the Cubans of possessing 1,700 pounds of marijuana when he was arrested in 1983. As he left Dulles Airport to drive home with his family, Cheatham shouted, "Tell Jackson thanks a million! Jesse Jackson is Jesus Christ right...
Liberation theology is a predominantly Roman Catholic movement of theologians and activists who believe that it is the church's duty to work for human rights for the poor and oppressed. Some of its more extreme proponents endorse the concept of Christ as liberator and see their mission in terms of a Marxist class struggle...
...Majority, claims religious grounds for opposing both the Equal Rights Amendment and the idea of running a woman for Vice President. "I think God has a plan for men to be responsible for affairs of government," he says. "The Bible just teaches that the head of the man is Christ, the head of the woman is man, and that's God's order of things. God has made the woman, biologically and physiologically, keeper of the home. It is rare to find a woman to stand up to the rigors of politics...