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...Missouri state senator and well-known talk-show host, has campaigned ceaselessly against incumbent Republican John Danforth's support of Reagan's economic programs, an approach that is going down well in the traditionally Democratic and fiscally floundering Show Me State. Danforth, 46, an Episcopal priest, heir to the Ralston Purina fortune and Missouri attorney general for eight years before becoming a Senator in 1976, is outspending Woods 2 to 1 and trading on his enormous personal popularity in the state. "Everybody likes Danforth," concedes Missouri Democratic Senator Thomas Eagleton. As recently as last month, Danforth held...
...value of the papacy is its moral symbolism, not its diplomatic skill. If Arafat needed solace, a priest would do; if mediation, a bishop would suffice. But he sought approval from the highest figure in the church, the Pope. Roman Catholics should be horrified...
...candidates' styles could not be more dissimilar. Danforth, an uncommonly shy campaigner who appears on the stump infrequently, is an ordained Episcopal priest and an heir to the Ralston Purina dog-food and cereal fortune. He is emphasizing his efforts to help two beleaguered groups-the state's auto workers (with increased tariff protections against imports) and its farmers (with rural enterprise zones). But, as the first Republican elected to the Senate from Missouri since 1946, Danforth is de-emphasizing his ties to the Reagan economic program. One of his political ads urges voters to forget the Republican...
...Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." Repeating those words of Jesus (John 15:13), Pope John Paul II last week presided over the canonization of a fellow Pole who greatly inspired his own vocation as a priest: Maximilian Maria Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who died for his faith-and to save another man's life-at the most notorious of Nazi death camps...
...fame on TV's Kung Fu as the ascetic Shaolin priest who only used his prodigious powers in self-defense. But David Carradine, 41, is now trying to block the release of his latest martial-arts movie, Lone Wolf, with a well-aimed legal kick to its producers' fiscal throat. Carradine agreed to play the heavy in the film on condition that 1) he would not kill the woman, in this case sultry, almond-eyed Barbara Carrera; 2) he would not die; and 3) he would not get licked in hand-to-hand combat with the film...