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When Roth refused to comply and barricaded himself inside the Clairton church, Bishop May won a court order to oust him. Roth eventually surrendered, and on Nov. 13 was sentenced to 90 days in prison for contempt of court. A special Lutheran panel will soon consider whether Roth should be defrocked...
...Clairton, 71 of the 135 members at Trinity Lutheran Church had complained about Pastor D. Douglas Roth's support of DMS to Bishop Kenneth May and the regional synod of the Lutheran Church in America. Eventually the members demanded Roth's dismissal. When the synod decided to oust Roth and he refused to obey, it won a court order early this month requiring that he leave. Instead, Roth, 33, barricaded himself in the church and preached his usual Sunday sermon, telling the congregation of 75, "It is a sin to destroy people's lives. Christ would never...
Gandhi allies oust an ex-idol
...Mondale very nearly scuttled all his meticulous plans with an uncharacteristically impulsive act on the eve of the convention: his move to oust Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt. Presidential nominees usually replace their party chairmen with their own people, but they generally wait until after the convention has ended. Even so, the firing of Manatt would probably not have caused much of a national stir had it not been for Mondale's choice of Bert Lance, President Carter's scandal-tainted Budget Director, to replace him. Whether they liked Manatt or not, and many did not, scores...
Cianci's exit capped a tumultuous week in Providence. Public Safety Commissioner Sanford Gorodetsky quit after trying to oust the police chief, Anthony Mancuso, who refused to leave. The city highway superintendent and two public-works employees were charged with extorting payoffs from contractors, bringing to six the total of city employees indicted during the past year. State troopers stood sentry at city hall after city workers were seen shredding documents. In a special election set for July 17, Acting Mayor Joseph Paolino Jr. is considered the leading contender. But the redoubtable Cianci has hinted that he wants...