Word: mormon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needs Santini in the Senate. A shrewd, backslapping veteran pol, Santini has tried to depict his opponent, Democratic Congressman Harry Reid, as that Republican bogeyman, a "Tip O'Neill liberal." Reid depicts himself as a fighter against Big Business and the "Washington power brokers." A blond, soft-spoken Mormon, Reid has tried to peg Santini as a turncoat and a pawn of the Establishment. But he has refrained from criticizing Reagan or bringing up the subject of Senate control. "It wouldn't sell well in Nevada," he explains. Reid even displays an autographed photo of himself and the President...
...frightened silence. Declaring that he had enough explosives to "wipe out Cokeville," Young told Principal Max Excell that he wanted a whopping ransom of $2 million a hostage, as well as a talk with President Reagan. "Why Cokeville?" asked Excell. Replied Young: "Because it's a nice little Mormon town where people won't let anything happen to their kids...
These well dressed women, make-up heavily and skillfully applied, were Mormons, fulfilling their year-long missionary requirement. What religion are you, would you be interested in a Mormon meeting, what's your phone number, where do you live, can we stop by, here's a pamphlet. Once again a friendly introduction had accelerated into a heavenly sales pitch. Trapped in the moving subway, I could only grind my teeth into a smile as disingenuous as their's. After all the bubbly inquiries, I was just one more requirement to be met in their year of divine duty...
After Salt Lake City Businessman Steven F. Christensen and Housewife Kathleen Sheets were killed by pipe bombs last October, Utah authorities almost immediately named Mark W. Hofmann, a dealer in rare Mormon documents, as their prime suspect. Last week they finally charged Hofmann with the two first-degree murders, as well as 26 other felonies. In building their case, moreover, prosecutors claimed to have not only established a motive for the killings but also to have uncovered a bizarre religious fraud...
Hofmann, 31, first won attention as broker of the so-called White Salamander Letter, which purportedly traced some of Mormon Founder Joseph Smith's beliefs to folk magic, rather than to divine revelation as the church teaches. Prosecutors claim that the letter and many other documents that Hofmann peddled to the church were forgeries, and that Christensen learned of the scam. Sheets, they believe, was killed in a diversionary effort to connect Christensen with her husband's controversial business dealings. Hofmann, who was injured a day after the slayings in a car bombing that police say was accidental, maintains that...