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...most popular Lewis book of the 1970s is Mere Christianity (1952), the work of straightforward evangelism that snatched White House Felon Charles Colson out of Screwtape's dominion. This highly original statement of wholly unoriginal doctrine was first f prepared as a series of talks "on the BBC. Lewis, whose |s prose comes clad in the crisp white linen of logic, starts from mankind's inherent sense of right and wrong. Think about this, Lewis says: men feel wet when they fall into water; fish do not. If men feel "wet"-alien-in a world where evil abounds...
Born-Again Christian Charles Colson can't help describing his new friendship with Eldridge Cleaver in biblical terms: "We're like Matthew the tax collector and Simon the Zealot, two unlikely people who came together loving one another." Jokes Cleaver: "He's the kind of man I used to put on my dart board." Colson, 45, a former White House aide who served seven months in jail for his part in Watergate, and Cleaver, 41, who still faces a murder rap for his part in a 1968 Black Panther Shootout, met a year ago at a religious...
...request and that another $500,000 had been provided for Nixon -also on Fitzsimmons' orders-by Allen Dorfman, a convicted Chicago labor racketeer and adviser to the Teamsters Union pension fund. Provenzano was quoted further as saying the cash had been requested by White House Aide Charles Colson, who handled the Administration's relations with the Teamsters...
Crucial Timing. The FBI believes that Colson, after getting President Nixon's approval on the evening of Jan. 3, 1973, either himself or through an associate, received the money in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, 1973. The timing is crucial. In late 1972, Watergate Burglar Howard Hunt was a loose cannon in the cover-up scheme, demanding through his lawyer, William Bittman, to be paid for his continued silence. The lawyer met with Colson on Jan. 3. Colson later told Dean: "Bittman came at me like a train...
...eyed silence millions watched the purgatorial unpeeling of the Nixon soul as angel hosts intoned, "Will he ever say to the silent Witness, "God be merciful to me a sinner and save me for Jesus' sake'?" Colson and Magruder did it; why can't Richard Nixon...