Word: lions
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Like many mainline Protestant groups, the Presbyterians are rich ($1.2 bil lion in contributions last year) but have been suffering from a slippage in membership. Since 1968, the rolls have shrunk by 1 million, with a decrease of 35,000 last year. The 278-year-old U.S. church is troubled by hostility between Evangelicals and social activists in matters as diverse as theology, foreign missions and ecumenism. For 122 years, the Southern and Northern wings of the church were separate entities. Last year they reunited, and Andrews and Thompson have served as Co-Stated Clerks on an interim basis. Says...
Known as the Lion of Panjshir, Massoud has established a local political and judicial system, organized his own tax system, instituted classes in the use of rocket launchers and heavy artillery, and even set up schools and bus services throughout the valley. His Mujahedin have also hounded their Soviet invaders. Recently they captured and reportedly killed 23 Soviet agents disguised as Mujahedin. By persistently ambushing military convoys traveling between Kabul and the Soviet border, they have caused a severe fuel problem in the capital, a mere 40 miles to the south. Only two weeks ago they compounded that shortage...
...been routed and their leader captured or killed. Noted one Western diplomat in Moscow: "They would hardly claim anything that specific unless it were at least partly true." Others were not convinced. Afghan resistance spokesmen in Paris acknowledged that two attempts had been made upon the Lion's life, including one by an undercover agent who took aim from only 30 feet away. But they also insisted that rumors of Massoud's downfall were as overblown as those put about by Kabul two years ago. "There are no casualty figures, no reports of capture of arms...
...long time ago, students of power concocted a formula that has yet to be disproved: "An army of stags led by a lion would be better than an army of lions led by a stag...
Goals H. Rob Huribut 2, Marin Gateia, lion McCallney, RobHawley, Chuspulols; P. Hill konahue, 2. Paul Faber...