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Roth and other ministers at first enjoyed the support of the church when in 1980 they proposed to enlist Pittsburgh corporations to help laid-off steelworkers. But then they turned to confrontation, disrupting church services attended by bank and steel executives, and ignored church orders to stop. After his defrocking at last week's synod in Greenville, Pa., Roth seized the podium and refused to leave the auditorium, shouting, "There is great corruption in the church!" He was arrested again, along with a fellow dissident minister, then released on the condition that he not go near the auditorium. Said Bishop...
...stubbornly clings to the fiction that Harvard's continued investments in South Africa-related companion can lead to some meaningful change in South Africa. If he is concerned enough about apartheid to lend his name to anti-apartheid legislation, he should not balk at a prime opportunity to enlist something far more powerful to help the cause: Harvard's millions...
...Persian Gulf, to continue receiving its allotted U.S. aid of about $260 million this year, more than any other African country except Egypt. At the same time, however, Suwar al Dahab promised to try to improve relations with two meddlesome neighbors, Libya and Ethiopia. As if hoping to enlist the new regime in his own cause, Libya's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, made a point of being the first leader to recognize Sudan's junta. "Reagan has nothing to do with Sudan," the Libyan said. "If he interferes, his nose will...
...thaw the "cold peace" with Israel by exchanging emissaries with Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Mubarak later flew to Washington to make a personal plea to President Reagan for renewed U.S. involvement. Then, last week, the globe-trotting Egyptian leader joined King Hussein on a trip to Baghdad to enlist the support of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Not since Reagan took office have Arab leaders displayed such an aggressive effort to revive the dormant peace process and, most important, to get the U.S. back into the diplomatic game...
...region, called a news agency in Beirut to deny responsibility for the hijacking. He expressed support for the terrorists but urged them "not to get the Islamic Republic involved in the case." The Iranian government's best hope for ending the siege, perhaps, would have been to enlist the mullahs and other influential Shi'ite leaders to persuade the terrorists that the hijacking was not in the greater interests of the Islamic revolution...