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The posting of Liu's confession seemed aimed at rousing public ire against him and strengthening Mao's hand. The next day, some 100,000 Red Guards poured into the Peking Workers' Athletic Hall for "A Rally for Thoroughly Criticizing Liu and Teng for Their Bourgeois Reactionary...
The Fifth Bomb. Some previously unscathed idols were also tarred by Guard posters last week. Attacked as a backslider was Chen Yi, the nation's durable Vice Premier and Foreign Minister. There was no "confession" from Chen Yi, though. After the posters appeared, he continued to act as one...
The battle over the United Presbyterians' much debated, social activist "Confession of 1967" (TIME, June 3) is not over. Last week a group of conservative church members, calling themselves the Presbyterian Lay Committee, Inc., took ads in more than 100 U.S. newspapers urging their fellow believers to reject the...
In its ads the committee complained that the new confession downgrades the authority of Scripture since it involves the words of men, conditioned by the "places and times in which they were written." It also rejects the idea, implicit in the new confession, that the church has an imperative obligation...
Presbyterian leaders answer that the confession adopted has been approved in principle by the church's last two General Assemblies. They also point out that the committee's chances of defeating the confession are rather dim. Be fore adoption by the General Assembly next May, the confession must...