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NICE TO COME AND SEE US BUSH read a sign held by two camel-borne nomads at a refugee camp in central Sudan, which is struggling to accommodate some 600,000 starving Ethiopians. Accompanied by his wife Barbara, dozens of officials, private figures like TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, and a gaggle of reporters, Vice President George Bush was on a six-day swing through famine-plagued Africa that also took him to Mali and Niger. "When you see a little child a year old weighing five pounds," he said, "you better start trying to press leaders who are unwilling...
...Taiwan. Help also comes from Nicaraguan and Cuban exiles living in Florida as well as from a network of conservative groups in the U.S. Food, clothing and medical supplies have been sent to the families of contras by such organizations as the Christian Broadcasting Network, headed by Virginia Television Evangelist M.G. ("Pat") Robertson, and the Friends of the Americas, a Louisiana-based group dedicated to fighting Communism. Many of these efforts are coordinated by the American chapter of the World Anti-Communist League, headed by retired U.S. Army General John Singlaub, 63. He boasts that he and others have raised...
...fine print at the bottom of page 2 in the November 1983 issue of Hustler read, "Ad parody, not to be taken seriously." But Evangelist Jerry Falwell took it very seriously indeed. The raunchy magazine's lampoon of a Campari liquor ad, which normally features celebrities discussing their "first time," had the teetotaling leader of the Moral Majority saying that he always got "sloshed" before preaching and that he had lost his virginity in an outhouse with his mother. Falwell used the ad in a direct-mail solicitation to outraged supporters who raised $800,000, but he also sued...
After a solid 28-18 triumph over Dartmouth, the Elis began a string of miracles that would do a Sunday-morning T.V. evangelist proud...
...evangelist's words are likely to be heard by more than those who came to see him; surreptitious cassette recorders will doubtless give his sermons wide distribution among Soviets. Graham also took note of how difficult it is for Soviets to display their faith. In his usual appeal for public commitments to Jesus Christ, he asked his Baptist listeners in Leningrad to raise their hands. Despite the presence of KGB plainclothesmen with cameras, two dozen people did so. A parishioner later explained poignantly why more did not respond: "You Americans live in freedom. Our arms are always pressed down...