Word: pittsburgher
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When Lutheran Minister D. Douglas Roth last November defied his bishop and refused to leave his church in a depressed steel town near Pittsburgh, police were called in, and Roth was jailed for 112 days. Last week a church synod voted 499 to 33 to defrock the still outspoken minister. It was only the second such action in the 22-year history of the Lutheran Church in America. Said Nadine Roth, his wife: "I guess we're like any other unemployed family...
Roth and other ministers at first enjoyed the support of the church when in 1980 they proposed to enlist Pittsburgh corporations to help laid-off steelworkers. But then they turned to confrontation, disrupting church services attended by bank and steel executives, and ignored church orders to stop. After his defrocking at last week's synod in Greenville, Pa., Roth seized the podium and refused to leave the auditorium, shouting, "There is great corruption in the church!" He was arrested again, along with a fellow dissident minister, then released on the condition that he not go near the auditorium. Said Bishop...
...storm was capricious. At John's Bar & Grill in Evans City, 23 miles north of Pittsburgh, about 70 horrified customers hit the floor when a twister hovered overhead. The tornado razed surrounding buildings but spared the saloon...
Even as Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth began his campaign to eliminate illicit drug use from the sport last month, a grand jury in Pittsburgh was hearing testimony from at least eleven players about possible drug dealers in or around the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh clubhouses. Last week the grand jury indicted seven people who had associated with major league players, charging them with more than 160 counts, mainly for distributing cocaine. No players were indicted, although some had reportedly testified under immunity from charges...
Among those indicted were Curtis Strong, who catered food for the Philadelphia Phillies earlier this season, and Jeffrey Mosco, a bartender at a Pittsburgh pub frequented by athletes. Dale Shiffman, whom the FBI described as a gambler in Pittsburgh, was charged with 111 counts of cocaine distribution, more than any other defendant. Ueberroth, who has ordered all employees of the major leagues other than players to submit to drug- screening tests, hopes to persuade the players to take the tests as well. One additional concern: an athlete with an expensive illegal habit might be pressured to fix games...