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Reagan has been following a go-slow regimen so that his body's "cement" can harden properly after major surgery last July for a cancerous polyp in his bowel. The former lifeguard, once cheerily vain about his lifelong "coat of tan," has given up his morning sunbaths and wears a broad-brimmed straw hat to protect his face. These are also doctors' orders, aimed at preventing a recurrence of the skin cancer that was scraped from his nose last month...
...reasons are simpler for people like Chandler Robinson of Fort Worth, a retired engineer, who with Wife Julie forsook his lifelong Episcopal affiliation to join a conservative Baptist church. Says he: "The more we found ourselves maturing in Christianity the more disappointed we became with the spiritual food we were receiving. We were looking for someone to teach us out of the Bible." The Rev. W.A. Criswell of Dallas, 76, the leonine patriarch of the Southern Baptists' insurgent Fundamentalist wing and pastor of their largest congregation, charges that liberal theology "empties the churches. Wherever liberalism places its leprous hand, there...
DIED. Willem A. Visser 't Hooft, 84, Dutch clergyman, theologian and ecumenicist who was the founding general secretary of the World Council of Churches from its formation in 1948 until 1966; of emphysema; in Geneva. The lifelong crusader for Christian unity saw the W.C.C. go from 135 denominations in 44 countries to 300 in 90 countries. A crusty, rather worldly theologian, Visser 't Hooft insisted that the council include churches in Communist countries, increased the role and influence of African and Asian churches in the organization and pioneered an ecumenical rapprochement with Rome, though his goal of bringing Roman Catholicism...
Born in 1938, the son of a Lebanese merchant in what was then the British colony of Sierra Leone in West Africa, Berri moved to Lebanon as a boy. "He was a dynamic student, a very good leader and a passionate person," says lifelong Friend Nasib Fawaz, chairman of the Islamic Center of America in Detroit. "He enjoyed literature, sports and had lots of friends." Berri studied law at the Lebanese University, where he was elected head of the student union for four years. He later practiced law in Beirut without | drawing much attention. Separated from his American wife...
...patterns of wear and dental work are different in each individual. "It may be one tooth that puts the whole story together," says Snow, a forensic anthropologist from Norman, Okla. The rest of the skeleton can also yield information. Gunshot wounds, fractures and other major injuries often leave lifelong traces. So can diseases such as syphilis and tuberculosis and bone disorders like osteomyelitis, an infection from which Mengele is said to have suffered...