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...Western Europe's most peace organizations will take no part Thursday's demonstration. One is Action for Reconciliation, a group with strong ties to the Lutheran Church. Said Spokesman Wolfgang Brinkel: "We cannot on one hand do nothing during [Soviet President Leonid] Brezhnev's visit [last November] and then suddenly stage a demonstration during Reagan's visit." The Dutch-based Inter-Church Peace Council, a highly effective grass-roots organization that has served as a model for peace groups throughout the Continent, also will not take part in the rally. Said Spokesman Mient-Jan Faber...
...midweek, however, Graham may have begun to sense that he was treading on dangerous territory. When delegates began accusing the U.S. of escalating the arms race, he removed his earphones. He listened intently when Lutheran Bishop David Preus from Minneapolis objected to the anti-U.S. bias of the conference. Thus when it came time for Graham, the conference's star attraction, to deliver his speech, he made some attempt to modify his stance. Graham inserted into his prepared text an appeal for freedom of religious belief: "I urge all governments to respect the rights of religious believers...
Such power plays have also alienated influential religious advocates of the anti-nuclear movement. Two Lutheran organizations, the Evangelical Peace Service and Peace Without Arms, pulled out of the planning group for the June rally. Their main concern was that an openly anti-American protest would set back the growing peace movement...
Among the most active churches in the U.S. is the small and simple St. Peter's Lutheran 5 Church on Lexington Avenue in midtown Manhattan. St. Peter's, which opened in 1977, adorns the base of Hugh Stubbins Jr.'s 59-story Citicorp Center. Although it is not, strictly speaking, part of the Citicorp skyscraper, it too was designed by Stubbins and fits masterfully into his overall architectural vision. Stubbins' church holds its own at the foot of the somewhat brutish 915-ft. Citicorp tower. The church's uncluttered, skylit interiors were created by Vignelli...
...Takuye Green, 54, was facing a coronary bypass operation at Lutheran Hospital of Milwaukee. Her husband Hoyle remembers being reassured when they were told that a top visiting Air Force officer, Dr. William Stanford, would be assisting. Stanford was responsible for hooking her up to a heart-lung machine; somehow the connection was made backward. For 15 minutes no one noticed, and instead of pumping oxygenated blood into Green, the machine drained blood out of her aorta. The resulting brain damage has left her a speechless quadriplegic living on liquid protein. (And she could live that way for 20 years...