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...town the whole recruiting party was severely beaten and its drum was broken to bits; several other towns have agreed not to send even a single man into service. One officer writes about the "invincible dislike of all ranks of people to the American service." John Wesley, the Methodist leader, who is not himself pro-American, has written to a friend: "The bulk of the people heartily despise His Majesty and hate him with a perfect hatred. They wish to imbrue their hands in his blood...
Warning Signs. Outside Parliament, some South African leaders were even more emphatic. Said Alex Boraine, a Progressive-Reform M.P. and former president of the predominantly black Methodist Church of South Africa: "For years now the warning signs have been flashing for all to see. The tragedy is that they have been dismissed as the workings of a few agitators or political activists, or as rumblings that could easily be contained. I desire peace for South Africa, but there can be no peace without justice." Added Professor Erich Leistner, deputy director of Pretoria's Africa Institute, an African-affairs study...
...This is the first time that most of us have ever had close friends die." At 9:30 a.m. one day, Linda Green, an 18-year-old senior attended a memorial service at the Ullrey Memorial Chapel for Rachel Carlson, 16. At 11 a.m. she went to the First Methodist Church for a service in memory of Maria Azim, 15. At 5 p.m. she attended a memorial service at the Chapel of the Twin Cities for Jodi Lynn McCoy...
...firmer stance was adopted by the General Conference of the United Methodist Church meeting in Portland, Ore., last month. Strong support for a conservative position resulted in a refusal to fund a broad study on sexuality and a toughening of an official 1972 Methodist position on homosexuality. The statement that the church did "not recommend" marriage between people of the same sex was changed to "not recognize...
...magazine's title Genesis "sounded kind of religious," recalled Anthony Battiato, executive vice president of the David McKay publishing company. So McKay innocently accepted the monthly's bid to print an excerpt from a book, The Accountability of Power, by Senator Walter Mondale, the son of a Methodist minister. Genesis, alas, is a gamy skin mag, and Mondale's view on the presidency appeared in its May issue along with essays like "69 Far-Out Ways to Turn On a Woman" and the "Erotic Diary of a Nympho Cheerleader." Battiato conceded that "we goofed," but there...