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...Baptist Convention is a largely honorary job, and most presidents typically tend their 13.6 million-member flock in obscurity. Not the Rev. Bailey Smith of Del City, Okla. Last August, Smith offhandedly told a conservative political rally, "God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew." In the furor that predictably followed, Smith met with Jewish leaders and said he regretted hurting anyone's feelings, but never took back the remark...
Because of last spring's furor, Perkins says, his first task as director was to convince the institute's "key people" to stay on. How much discontent there was, he won't say--"Let's just say that everybody's reasonably happy now, and no one did leave. . . I certainly didn't want to purge anyone...
...revised vision of the presidential role, Giscard can be haughty and even arrogant. No better example exists than the furor aroused by a gift of diamonds he received from former Central African Despot Jean-Bédel Bokassa. When the issue was first raised in October 1979 Giscard stubbornly refused to divulge details. Last month the President disingenuously justified the delay in facing the issue by saying that "no one ever asked me the question." He said that the diamonds had been sold, and the proceeds donated to charity. That donation, it turned out was made only a month before...
...Capitol Hill and abroad? How well could the Secretary of State be expected to work with Reagan's top aides, with Bush and-perhaps most important -with the senior White House staff and Richard Allen, the National Security Adviser, whose hand had seemingly been strengthened by the furor...
...meeting of Bendix employees, Agee, 43, remarked that Cunningham's rapid advancement in the firm had nothing to do with a "personal relationship we have." That caused a furor, and two weeks later Bendix's directors accepted Cunningham's resignation. Cunningham, who had graduated from Harvard Business School just 15 months earlier, went into seclusion...