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...gathering gave 95% approval to the Peace Committee report, which endorsed inerrancy and chided seminaries for not hiring teachers who hold that view. Also passed was a recommendation that seminary boards "determine the theological positions" of current teachers. Faculty members expect new pressure on liberals. Warned Houston Judge Paul Pressler, the top Fundamentalist strategist: "We hope that all institutions will act with responsibility toward the people who pay their salaries...
...LARRY PRESSLER...
...1970s, when a group of Houston youths were taught such modern approaches to the Bible at Baptist Baylor University in Waco, Texas, they returned home and reported the information to Paul Pressler, their former Sunday school teacher. Pressler, a state appeals court judge, who is a cum laude Princeton alumnus and former state legislator, subsequently urged fellow conservatives to work toward electing a series of tough S.B.C. presidents. His notion: the conservative presidents would make appointments that would turn around the schools and the huge S.B.C. publishing house. Criswell's associate pastor, Paige Patterson, became Pressler's partner...
...there was much bickering over right-wing nominees, and Seminary President Dilday remains skeptical of all the postelection handshaking. Pressler and Patterson, says he, "have their own agenda. We know what that agenda is. We have no reason to believe their tactics will change." And if one of their goals is to fire Dilday himself, he says, "the only way I'll leave, is if they drag me out the front door...
...Hendrikson (D) 71.992 34 28 E--Mark Hatheld (R) 140 713 66 Rhode Island E--Claiborne Pell (D) 276.245 73 99 Barbara Leonard (R) 103.294 27 South Carolina Melvin Purvis (D) 224.111 32 73 Thurmond (R) 464.279 66 South Dakota George Cunningham (D) 47,129 26 61 E--Barry Pressler (R) 134 720 74 Tennesee E--Albert Gore Jr. (D) 959,238 60 97 Victor Ashe (R) 545,432 34 Texas David Doggett (D) 1,384,033 41 Gramm (R) 1,985,818 59 Virginia (D) 577,611 30 97 John Warner (R) 1,334,220 70 West Virginia...