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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spending 18 months as a beat cop in a tough southeast neighborhood. At the Post, he has worked as reporter, salesman, night production manager and sports editor; he also served as a correspondent for Newsweek in New York City and Los Angeles. He became the Post's assistant general manager in 1975, and a year later was named general manager and executive vice president, assuming responsibilities for business operations of the paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Post Haste | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...Columnist] David Broder," says Post Police Reporter Alfred Lewis. One doubt that colleagues whimsically cite about young Graham's business acumen: he has been known to loan reporters money. His deeper footprints around the paper are harder to find. He was a competent if unspectacular sports editor; as general manager he pressed for minority hiring. He says he is comfortable with the Post's liberal editorial policy and "delighted" with Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Post Haste | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...vote was an endorsement of the policies of the Rev. Philip A. Potter, 57, a West Indian Methodist who has been General Secretary of the council since 1972 and is an outspoken advocate of church action against "political and economic oppression." The Patriotic Front grant especially disturbed the huge Evangelical Church in Germany (E.K.D.). The West Germans carry special clout in the financially strapped W.C.C., since they provide up to 40% of the council's income. An E.K.D. spokesman warned in October that the violence issue was "liable to blow the whole ecumenical movement apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Potter Power | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...expenses run up by top brass at the 75,000-member Worldwide Church of God were boggling: $22,571 for a stay at the Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris; $12,402 for six pieces of Steuben glass; $7,509 for furnishings at Church Treasurer and General Counsel Stanley R. Rader's pad in Tucson. In just one year, the lagniappe of church VIPs totaled more than $1 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Propheteering? | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Worldwide Church expense accounts have been just one element of the latest chapter in the continuing struggle over control of the 45-year-old institution. Acting on behalf of dissident members and California's attorney general, the state's superior court appointed a receiver to take temporary control of the church's multimillion-dollar assets. The dissidents accuse Rader, 48, and the church's head and self-styled prophet, Herbert W. Armstrong, 86, of not only lavish spending but "liquidating the properties of the church on a massive scale." The plaintiffs charge that in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Propheteering? | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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