Word: mormons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week several hundred feet beyond their fence, the hostile world waited. More than 150 police and FBI agents surrounded the compound shortly after Swapp allegedly dynamited the nearby Mormon church on Jan. 16. The heavily armed clan of messianic polygamists was holed up with ample food and water, goading the authorities to deliver them to martyrdom and thereby bring about the resurrection of their dead patriarch, Vickie's husband John Singer...
Utah offered a foretaste of its hospitality two weeks ago, when a team of Russians inspected the Army depot in Tooele to observe procedures for destroying chemical weapons. The visitors were feted with banana splits and a rehearsal of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The big treat for Americans in Votkinsk will be a look at Tchaikovsky's birthplace...
Archconservative Pontiac Dealer Evan Mecham needed five tries to become Governor of Arizona. Now, just ten months after taking his oath, the grandfatherly Mormon is under siege. He has been ridiculed in the comic strip Doonesbury, faces a formidable recall campaign, and is the target of a grand jury investigation that could lead to impeachment...
MARRIED. Sharlene Wells, 23, Miss America of 1985; and Robert Allen Hawkes, 25, a physical therapy student; in Salt Lake City. Wells, like her husband a Mormon attending Brigham Young University, attributed her beauty crown to the pageant's need for restored wholesomeness after disclosures that 1984 Winner Vanessa Williams had posed nude for photographs...
...court developed a new threefold test: laws must avoid "excessive government entanglement with religion," have a "principal" effect "that neither advances nor inhibits religion," and have a "secular" purpose. Last week the high court decided that this test is not violated by a law that permits the Mormon Church to discriminate religiously to fill nonreligious jobs...