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...five women were dragged or carried by deputy sheriffs into Judge William Kelly's heavily guarded courtroom last week in Evanston, Ill. They claimed to be freedom fighters and demanded to be tried in military courts. "I am a prisoner of war," screamed Carlos Alberto Torres, 27, who had been on the FBI's Most Wanted list since 1977. Impassively, Judge Kelly ordered the defendants held for arraignment this week. As Torres was hauled off to Cook County Jail, he shouted: "?Viva Puerto Rico libre!" Outside the building about 50 supporters waved red flags and chanted: "Drive...
DIED. Ray Garrett Jr., 59, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1973 to 1975; of cancer; in Evanston, Ill. Garrett won abolition of fixed commission rates on stock transactions. This caused turmoil in the brokerage industry, but it mainly benefited large institutions; for small investors, commissions have actually risen...
...festival, organized by a group called the Midwest Pagan Council, reflected what some religious leaders find to have been a rather rapid spread of neopaganism around the country over the past decade. J. Gordon Melton, an Evanston, Ill., Methodist minister who heads the Institute for the Study of American Religion, reckons that there may be as many as 40,000 practicing pagans today. They constitute, says Melton, "a neopaganist movement, a modern revival of the rituals and faith by people who were not raised in them...
Melton, 36, has pursued his hobby of spiritual taxonomy for 15 years. He is now a Methodist pastor in Evanston, Ill., and his rambling parsonage houses the Institute for the Study of American Religion. Melton has conducted hundreds of field interviews. During one foray to the offices of the animal-loving Church of All Worlds, his wife Dorothea went into a bathroom only to confront a live boa constrictor curled in the corner and a 4-ft. crocodile...
...concern to parents who believe-with some reason-enrollments may one day increase and the buildings will be needed for students again and could not be duplicated or brought back at anything like present prices. Because most of the teaching staffs will simply be transferred elsewhere in the district, Evanston will save only about $150,000 in upkeep and payroll for each school closed...