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Lutheranism in the U.S. with 8.5 million adherents, is stable and healthy. The church also growing in the Third World strongholds like racially torn Nambia, where black Lutherans predominate. But in Lutheran's historic heartland, the two Germanys and Scandinavia, there are deep problems. In East Germany, Lutherans are under pressure from the Communist regime. In West Germany, the Evangelical Church in Germany (E.K.D.), a church federation that includes some non-Lutherans, is wealthy (annual income: $3 billion), but membership is shrinking and attendance at Sunday services is feeble indeed. Only 6% of West Germans-or for that matter...
...Normandy landing, Ike was sure and decisive. But he was not always right. Too many days and lives were squandered at Arnhem in 1944, argues Ambrose, when the Allies should have been trying to seize Antwerp. That would have opened up the European port nearest Germany's heartland and, he asserts, ended the war months sooner. Even worse, as the Wehrmacht collapsed, Eisenhower turned his armies toward the Alps instead of racing the Soviets to Berlin, a blunder that left a lasting imprint on the map of Europe...
There was never much doubt that the Chouf, heartland of Lebanon's 250,000 Druze, who are members of a breakaway Islamic sect, would fall under control of the Druze militia, although the mountains are specked with Christian as well as Druze villages (see following story). The Druze militia has 30,000 fighters and, if pressed, could field thousands of irregulars. The Lebanese Forces, a Christian militia dominated by the Phalangists, have an estimated 5,000 to 8,000 fighters in the Chouf. This number could also be considerably increased, though at the moment many Christian families are sending...
...mainland, rumbling through Texas with a counterclockwise crunch of 115-m.p.h. winds. Galveston was swamped. Window panes popped from Houston's glass-and-steel towers, spewing shards over the streets below. What was hell in Texas held out some heavenly hopes for parts of the parched heartland, where the corn is withering on the stalks. But Alicia's leftover showers as it moved north were probably too late to save much of the devastated crop in what threatens to be the smallest corn harvest in a decade...
...evenly. Alaska is barely in its adolescence; high tech has given sagging Massachusetts a facelift, and much of the South is having a rebirth. North Carolina is now tenth in population with the highest percentage of workers employed by industry. Unfortunately, there are signs of sclerosis in the heartland. "Sadly," say the authors, "the most resistant to change were the Midwestern states, where even in the depression of the '80s many leaders in both management and labor seemed to imagine they could continue their old adversarial ways and regain their lost prosperity without fundamental readjustments...