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...criticism came into focus last fall with the publication in Britain of a slim volume called Secular Evangelism. In a plea for soft-sell evangelism, the book argues that "by attempting to bulldoze adolescent minds into orthodoxy of belief we are . . . making it more difficult for earnest seekers after the truth to be real persons." It urges evangelists to seek "people before converts." That did not sit too well with the Salvation Army, for whom soul winning is still the basic objective. Worse yet, the author was Salvation Army Major Fred Brown of Regent Hall, one of the Army...
...little about the E.T.A.'s fuzzy vision of "a socialist Basque state," the provinces fell in behind the Burgos 16. Unsettled by stories of police torture and by the fact that two of the defendants are priests. Spain's complacent and pro-Franco bishops united in a plea for "maximum clemency." Even more distressing to the regime were leaked reports that high Spanish officials, among them Foreign Minister Gregorio López Bravo, were grumbling privately about the trial. When 300 prominent artists and intellectuals began a 48-hour sit-in at the Abbey of Montserrat near Barcelona...
Last month an ersatz congressional election was held in which the pro-government party, ARENA, won 70% of the 310 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. ARENA'S victory against tame, regime-approved opposition candidates was not surprising, but neither was it convincing. A terrorist plea for the casting of blank ballots as a protest gesture, meanwhile, was totally ignored. Brazil's 30 million voters seemed determined to turn thumbs down on the terrorists, if not quite thumbs up for the generals...
...summer home, Belle Vue, and temporarily occupied two army camps. But they ignored Conakry's radio station, whose Chinese-made transmitter is located practically next door to PAIGC headquarters. Thus Touré was able to go on the air with an emotional report to his people and a plea to them to remain alert: "Leave your books and get your arms, leave your kitchen pots and get your arms, leave your plows and get your arms." The President reportedly was being assisted in directing the battle by Kwame Nkrumah, who was deposed as President of Ghana...
...year sentence instead of death. But even while pleading guilty, Alford protested his innocence. "I ain't shot no man," he told the judge. "I just pleaded guilty because they said if I didn't, they would gas me." The Supreme Court ruled that Alford's plea was just as persuasive as his protest. "Confronted with the choice between a trial for first-degree murder, on the one hand, and a plea of guilty to second-degree murder, on the other," said Justice Byron White for the court majority, "Alford quite reasonably chose the latter and thereby...