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...forsake her seemingly successful Terry Cole-Whittaker Ministries. The slim and folksy- friendly Rev. Terry bade a final goodbye last week at a hall in San Diego's Performing Arts Center. Below the balloon-festooned stage, a jazz combo and a Tibetan bell player generated mood music, and the Easter congregation of more than 4,000 joined in on Reach Out and Touch. As a 100-voice choir sang "Christ has risen," Cole-Whittaker materialized to applause and whistles. Tears streamed down her face, and two men held her by the waist to prevent enthusiasts from dragging...
...MILLION PRAYING FOR YOU, TANCREDO, read a banner outside Sao Paulo's Heart Institute. Television broadcasts mixed Easter week religious messages with prayers for President-elect Tancredo Neves, 75. In Neves' home state of Minas Gerais, an archbishop led special prayers at a Mass attended by 10,000 people. Outside the institute, hundreds of Brazilians, some weeping, waited for the latest medical bulletin...
...Santa Barbara, Calif., where President Reagan was spending the Easter holiday, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes predicted that the coup would not have a major effect on Washington's close relations with Khartoum. Said a State Department official: "The demonstrations provided the release for a kind of pent-up antagonism that took on a momentum of its own." Within hours, Libya, a foe of the Nimeiri regime, became the first country to recognize Sudan's new military leaders. Despite this recognition, Western diplomats in Cairo said they were hopeful that the leaders of the 60,000-man Sudanese army would...
Photographer David Burnett has especially vivid memories of the Easter offensive of 1972. "Most unnerving," he recalls, "was the sight, through the borrowed binoculars of an American adviser, of a wave of North Vietnamese tanks coming toward us." Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott chronicled the dwindling American presence in Viet Nam in 1973-74. "It was possible, in those fading days of the war," he says, "to eat breakfast with my family, drive out of Saigon for a morning's action, then return for a gossipy lunch." William McWhirter, now bureau chief in Bonn, reported from Viet...
...Columbia, student protesters have blockaded a main campus building since last Thursday, and have refused to leave even after Columbia obtained a temporary restraining order on Easter Sunday that paved the way for police to forcibly remove or arrest the students...