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...military courts sentenced 62 opponents of the regime to stiff prison terms for plotting to overthrow the government. Among them: former President Yun Po Sun, 76, Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Tji Hak Soun, 53, and the Rev. Park Hyung Kyoo, 51, deeply respected pastor of Seoul's Cheil Presbyterian Church. All accepted the summary sentences with moving dignity. Said Yun: "I ask you one question. Is it a crime to help democracy...
...appear at the White House frequently, admitted the that he latest had been "disappointed" by the latest transcripts but urged mercy: "The President and his family have undergone two years of suffering that were worse than prison." The Rev. John Huffman Jr., former pastor of the Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church, was stunned. Last year, Huff man recalled, he and Nixon had talked about Watergate, and the President had given "his absolute, total assurance that he was not involved in the cover-up and that he was doing everything he could to expose the situation." Now, continued Huffman, "I feel...
...believes, as he has from the beginning, that Nixon was destroyed by his enemies. "What I would like to know," said Sahli, "is where the impeachment thing started. I have the feeling that somebody put some money behind it." The Rev. George Carson, 52, pastor of the Trinity United Presbyterian Church, said that some of his parishioners were "greatly sorrowed." The minister himself is ambivalent: "In many ways the man has been misjudged, but he did make some errors...
...Northern church, meantime, has suffered its own attrition. Membership dropped by 100,000 last year. Worse, inflation and lagging church receipts, coupled with heavy expenses, have virtually exhausted the church's once hefty capital reserves. Merging the two denominations now, allowed outgoing United Presbyterian Moderator Clinton M. Marsh, would be like "putting together a crutch and a walking stick...
...midweek, though, Northerners had elected a new moderator known to hanker strongly for union: the Rev. Robert C. Lamar, 52, a pastor from Albany, N.Y., who has co-chaired the Joint Committee on Presbyterian Union since 1969. As for the Southerners, they elected Dr. Lawrence W. Bottoms, 66, the first black man ever to become moderator of the once segregated denomination. At his investiture, Bottoms got one of the week's few laughs. As his predecessor put the chain with the traditional cross of office over his head, the new moderator remarked: "Any time any white person puts anything...