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...neither Kerrey's panache nor his good looks won the election. He promised to attract jobs with more aggressive economic development, and took advantage of the fact that Thone had made enemies. The state's education lobby was angered by Thone's support of unaccredited fundamentalist schools. Other voters were upset by his approval of increases in state sales and income taxes. Thone also had irked some farmers, even though he had nothing to do with the fact that agricultural prices have fallen for three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election '82: Fresh Faces in the Mansion | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

DIED. Lester Roloff, 68, fiery fundamentalist preacher whose radio-based ministry financed controversy-ridden homes for rebellious children; when his private plane crashed, also killing four others; near Normangee, Texas. In his homes, Roloff enforced hard-nosed "godlines" (no coffee, newspapers, aspirins or TV), sometimes with whipping and paddling. To charges of excessive harshness, Roloff replied, "There's nothing wrong with handcuffing a girl to keep her from going to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 15, 1982 | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

...bill and saying. "Thanks, Senor Sasser," referring to the Democrat's vote for a bill to extend U.S. aid to international development banks. Later to draw attention to Sasser's vote against a Constitutional amendment banning abortion, the Beard campaign financed a tour of the state by a fundamentalist religious leader who called the Senator a "murderer...

Author: By Cecil D. Quillen, | Title: Repudiation | 11/2/1982 | See Source »

...past several weeks, the Ayatullah has been trying to stir up resentment against the government of Saudi Arabia by including fundamentalist Shi'ite zealots among the Muslims making the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Speaking for many gulf Arabs, Bahrain's Prime Minister Khalifa says: "The continual upheaval in Iran is a great danger. But subversion is the greatest threat of all. I have no doubt that the U.S. appreciates the scope of this threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gulf States: Stay Just on the Horizon, Please | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...fundamentalist Christian, yet I resents the lack of tolerance these students showed this man, and the puerile means with which they displayed it. Harvard has been built on the principles of open discussion and tolerance of belief. If there bocklers are not secure enough in their own convictions to argue logically with someone who looks at things differently, they have no business "In the company of learned men." Timothy Fleck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tolerance Within The Ivy Walls | 10/20/1982 | See Source »

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