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...Huyard clan, who, like most of their Amish neighbors, drive horse-and-buggy rigs and wear homemade black garb, has cleaved to its faith and offered the accused killer forgiveness. As he painted a shed on his hilltop property, Isaac Huyard cited the Bible: "Resist not evil, but overcome evil with good." David E. Huyard, 75, Naomi's uncle and the family patriarch, suggested that the murder is symptomatic of a growing rebelliousness among Amish and Mennonite youth, who are taught to live peacefully and according to the Bible. "We're being tested and tried in many different...
...organizes evangelists to reach the 13,000 of the brightly costumed Lisu people within Thailand. Eight of the brothers' twelve children are missionaries in Thailand; the other four are studying in the U.S. Next month, J. Russell Morse plans to leave Oklahoma and come back to help the clan...
Family Ties (NBC, Wednesdays, 9:30-10 p.m. E.S.T.) offers two aging flower children (Meredith Baxter Birney, Michael Gross) raising a clan of three conformist offspring with wisdom derived less from Spock and Gesell than from Ozzie and Harriet. Gloria (CBS, Sundays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T) brings back Sally Struthers from All in the Family and plunks her down in the sticks, with child, as an apprentice vet. Another show, The New Odd Couple (ABC, Fridays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T.) has literally been here before. Oscar (Demond Wilson) and Felix (Ron Glass) are black this time around...
Marriage wrote Novelist John P. Marquand, "is a damnably serious business, particularly around Boston." And also, these days, around Tokyo. The Japanese are as obsessive about nuptials as any traditional Back Bay clan. Moreover, they have far more opportunities to celebrate weddings...
...Lebanon, politics is a family affair, and the Gemayel clan has been prominent on the national scene for half a century. Pierre Gemayel, now 72, founded the Christian Phalangist Party in the 1930s, and he raised his two sons to carry on the family role in politics. So when President-elect Bashir Gemayel was assassinated last September only nine days before he was to have been inaugurated, it came as no surprise that his brother Amin promptly declared his own candidacy. By a nearly unanimous vote in parliament, Amin was elected to a six-year term. At first...