Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Griffin Bell sat in the Oval Office chewing over a familiar problem. FBI Director Clarence Kelley was due to step down by the end of 1977, but Carter and Bell had no replacement in sight; they were not happy with the five candidates proposed by a special committee. "My God," sighed Bell, "I still wish we could get ole Frank Johnson to take...
Lawyers and clerks who have worked with Johnson describe him as a no-nonsense administrator with an innate sense of justice. "God pity the Mafia," said Alabama Attorney George Dean. "He's mean as a snake on crime." But he does not lack compassion. In one case, a white man was accused of persuading several black youths to steal peanuts from a warehouse; the jury convicted the blacks but acquitted the alleged ringleader. Johnson sentenced the youths to 30 minutes in the custody of a U.S. marshal...
...verdant hills south of Mexico City, a self-proclaimed messenger of God's wrath is in hiding from man's justice. Ervil LeBaron, 52, polygamous (13 wives, at least 25 children) leader of the tiny Church of the Lamb of God, is the target of investigations by police departments from San Diego and Los Angeles to Salt Lake City and Denver. Even the Secret Service is interested in his whereabouts, since some of his followers sent a threatening letter to the then presidential candidate Jimmy Carter in September 1976. LeBaron's alleged crime: inducing several...
...Molinos into a beach resort, while Joel envisioned a simple, self-sustaining community. Moreover, Joel, unlike Ervil, thought that a separation of church and civil law was essential. Kicked out of the First Born Church in 1970, Ervil started his own sect, the Church of the Lamb of God, in San Diego. He also began writing tracts claiming the authority to execute anyone who refused to accept him as God's representative. Less than two years later, Joel was shot dead in nearby Ensenada, Mexico...
...movie. In Scavullo's opinion Lassie is very well groomed and a sal looker, "right up there ith Barbra Streisand." The dog also a photographer's dream. You don't have to worry Dout clothes, makeup or hair," says Scavullo. "Everything is taken care of by God...