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When she was eleven, Rosemary Daniell sat in the Bolton, Ga., Methodist church and "dreamed of marrying the blond boy" a few pews away, "in a baby-blue wedding with six bridesmaids, of becoming the perfect housekeeper and sex partner, and of having six children [and] writing perfect novels while perfect cakes baked in the oven in my Betty Crocker kitchen." She never made it. Instead, Daniell got hitched at 16 to a classically brutal good ole boy, divorced him and married upward to a dull architect, raised three children, had an affair with a "Famous Southern Poet," married again...
...Mugabe's apparent choice for the presidency is the Rev. Canaan Banana, 44, an eccentric Methodist minister and ZANU militant best known for his adaptation of the Lord's Prayer to the goals of black nationalism: "Teach us to demand our share of the gold. Forgive us our docility...
...keeping with the conciliatory public mood was the bitter reaction of Bishop Abel T. Muzorewa, who won only three seats despite an active and well-financed campaign. (Candidates of the other six black parties were shut out completely.) Favored by the whites because of his moderate politics, the Methodist prelate had become Rhodesia's first black Prime Minister last June after he won 51 of the 72 black seats in "internal" elections boycotted by the guerrillas. Last week's vote, he declared in an emotional press conference, had been "absolutely unfree and unfair" because of intimidation by Mugabe...
Ward 8, Precinct 5--Residents of 29 Garden St., 20 Walker St., Shepherd House, 60 Walker St. and Coggeshall vote at the Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church...
...Middle East Panel is headed by the Rev. Tracey K. Jones Jr., general secretary of the Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church, the most important agency in the N.C.C.'s largest member body. Last October Jones' agency went on record favoring P.L.O. participation in peace talks as "the representative" of the Palestinians. But Jones conveyed an air of fair-mindedness as he steered the Washington hearings, which broke no new ground...