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DIED. Martin Luther King Sr., 84, pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church from 1931 to 1975, father of the slain civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, and in his own right a pioneer in improving race relations; of a heart attack; in Atlanta. A sharecropper's son, "Daddy King," as he was affectionately known, led several early local crusades for civil rights, including in 1936 an unprecedented-and dangerous-voting-rights march. During a life marked by personal tragedies, he lost, in addition to his namesake assassinated in 1968, another...
...bishop, who has led the activist South African Council of Churches since 1978, found a change of tasks entirely welcome. "The time is just right for me to leave the SACC. The world has given its verdict with the Nobel Prize," he observed, adding, "I am fundamentally a pastor. That is what God ordained...
...PASTOR BEHIND BARS...
...dying steel-mill town of 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...
...pastor wandered over in a philosophical mood. "I think God intends us to be happy in this life," he said. "We all have our share of troubles." He said that when he was growing up he was an usher at Ebbets Field, in the days of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Then he became a guide with Gray Line Tours. In 1950, he said, "I figured out maybe I could lead tours to heaven, and maybe I could sneak in a side door myself." For the moment, however, he led an elderly lady onto the parquet floor and commenced to execute...