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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view of all this, Bishop Dibelius decided that toughness was in order. He said, in effect, that East German laws are not valid for Christians...
...pictures. This is more color than most newspapers use, but they use plenty. The increase in run-of-press color, i.e., in regular press runs as opposed to specially preprinted color, is a major development in U.S. journalism. Moving westward, its importance grows almost in geographical proportion: in the East, 52% of newspaper readers get multicolor dailies; in the Midwest, 87%, and in the Far West...
Island Newsday-before vanishing from public view into an apartment on Manhattan's upper East Side. This week, having dangled an irresistible bait, the Washington Post and Times Herald announced that it had lured Cartoonist Duffy, 60, out of hiding...
...short grey beard, the cigar and the fierce twinkle of Berlin's Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius, 79, are second only to the face of Chancellor Adenauer himself as a symbol of resolution against the East German Communists. Toughness, as Dibelius well knows, is not all; he must protect the Christians in the Communist zone with plenty of canny compromise. But during the past few months, Bishop Dibelius began to feel that for the Evangelical Lutheran churches, it was all give...
When the church softened its policy to permit "Youth Dedication" to the state, participation in these strictly secular ersatz confirmations hit an 80%-go% high last spring, and some East German congregations celebrated no Christian confirmations at all. Fewer and fewer children are signing up for the voluntary school program of religious education. Economic discrimination against Christians has not abated, and Red bureaucrats systematically hinder efforts to build new churches and repair old ones. In Saxony alone, 50 churches were condemned as unsafe since the war while the state withheld permission for repairs...