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...ensured that "mediocrity triumphs. " He chided the U.S. for "a decline in courage," particularly "among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite"-a point that must have stung his audience. He spoke scathingly of America's intoxication with "habitual extreme safety and well-being "; its devotion to the letter of the law, which paralyzes the country's ability "to defend itself against the corrosion of evil"; the absorption of the Western press with "gossip, nonsense, vain talk...
...will eventually succeed the aged and ailing Apostle Herbert? Recent Convert Rader appears all-powerful, but he is not a minister and has numerous enemies. "Many people fear Stan immensely," says a veteran headquarters official. An anonymous "Committee of Twelve" has sent a vicious anti-Rader letter to all Worldwide ministers. Rader's candidate to take over may be the newly installed director of the church's ministry, C. Wayne Cole. But Garner Ted should not be counted out. Says Professor Joseph Hopkins of Pennsylvania's Westminster College, author of a recent book called The Armstrong Empire...
Last week, in a terse letter issued from Salt Lake City, the church's First Presidency (President Spencer Kimball, 83, and two counselors) declared that henceforth "all worthy male members of the church may be ordained to the priesthood without regard for race or color...
...letter did not alter the church's antipathy to interracial marriage or examine the theological implications of the new policy. For one thing, Mormons hold that all people possess an unremembered spirit existence before birth. Discussing black priesthood in 1951, the First Presidency stated that the church rejects original sin and believes that each individual is punished in earthly life for his own failings. This implies, the Presidency said then, that "the Negro is punished or allotted to a certain position on this earth ... because of his failure to achieve other stature in the spirit world...
...manufactured goods, from trucks to biscuits. This bombshell, more over, is hitting as the economy is still absorbing the impact of another recent Barre move: increases of up to 20% in the prices of natural gas, electricity, rail tickets and other government-supplied services. The cost of mailing a letter inside France went up from 22? to 26?, and this week premium gasoline will rise 10.7%, to $2.20 per gal. By charging more for services, Barre hopes to shrink the government's inflationary $4.3 billion budget deficit...