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When he died 20 years later, his widow Florence assumed leadership of the sect. She dissolved it after the failure of her prediction that the last days of creation would commence on April 22, 1959. But some members stayed on near Waco with Benjamin Roden, a preacher who styled himself as the literal successor to King David of Israel...
Howell joined them in 1984, after he was expelled by a conventional Seventh- day Adventist congregation. Before long he was locked in a power struggle with George Roden, who then headed the sect with his mother Lois. It ended with Howell being driven from the sect at gunpoint. He briefly established his own desolate congregation, living with them in tents and packing crates in nearby Palestine, Texas. But the feud between the two men reached another flashpoint soon after, when Roden disinterred the corpse of a female church member with the intention of bringing her back to life. Contending that...
...momentum is with us," boasts Father Ed Roden, a key organizer. "The people rose up; they're getting action." Change never comes nicely, Alinsky's disciples preach. Nor fast. Sister will be content if a few hundred water hookups can be made by year's end. That will be a signal the colonias are on the road to controlling their own destiny...
...while today transactions are on a more complex level, the classic mercantile relationship--finished goods traded by developed nations for natural resources supplied by developing nations--remains intact, and the worldwide gap between rich and poor widens. By 1970, says MIT economics professor Paul Rosenstein-Roden, the per capita income of the poorest countries was one-fortieth that of the rich countries. And Robert McNamara, president of the World Bank, predicts that by the year 2000 "masses of the poor (who by that time will total two and one quarter billion) will on average receive less than $200 per capita...
...CHARLES RODEN...