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...Herbert Meredith Orrell Albuquerque...
...BERLIN BLOCKADE. The wartime Soviet-American friendship soon hardened into peacetime animosity-the cold war, in the writer Herbert Bayard Swope's coinage-when the Soviet Union organized its postwar system of Eastern European satellite states. The U.S. countered with its Marshall Plan to rebuild Western Europe and the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
With that declaration, reminiscent of conservative Republican affirmation since the time of Herbert Hoover, California's Democratic Governor Jerry Brown last week sounded a theme for his presidential campaign and joined a growing national movement to balance the federal budget by outlawing deficit spending...
...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 six months alone 50 pieces of church property, worth millions, have been sold. The attorney general's move touched off pandemonium...
Last June, Herbert Armstrong excommunicated his mellifluous TV preacher son Garner Ted, 48, who now operates a 3,000-member offshoot, the Church of God, International, from Tyler, Texas. Since the family fallout, the Worldwide Church has been run by Rader, a lawyer who was baptized by Herbert in 1975. The suit claims that Rader, whose 40-year-old secretary wed Herbert Armstrong in April 1977, may have reaped the profit from the $1.8 million sale of his Beverly Hills estate, which allegedly was maintained at church expense. The suit also raises questions about Rader's financial involvement...