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DIED. HOWARD W. HUNTER, 87, the 14th president, prophet, seer and revelator of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; in Salt Lake City, Utah. A former corporate lawyer, Clayton was the first Mormon president born in this century; his nine-month term was the shortest in church history...
Howard Hunter, the president, "prophet, seer and revelator" of the Mormon Church, died this morning in Salt Lake City after just 9 months at the helm of the 9-million member faith. He was 87 and suffered from prostate cancer. The one-time corporate lawyer served the shortest presidential term in the 165-year history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. TIME senior writer Richard N. Ostling notes that Hunter "had power in his church exceeding that of the pope, but made barely a dent as a church leader." (Mormons believe their leader, unlike the pontiff...
...took the Intifadah, the Palestinian popular uprising that began in December of 1987, to clinch Leibovitz's status as "seer." Israeli newspapers reported the daily incidents from the territories: pitiable, rock-throwing Arab youth and ruthlessly professional Israeli soldiers, together engaged in a macabre dance of death. Editorialists began to wonder how long the undeclared war could go on without taking a severe moral toll on the occupiers...
Nope. The whites do fall apart, but the black politicians, thugs and businessmen they encounter are just as inventively corrupt as any alderman back in Indiana. At one point a wily middleman recommends that Boone employ a seer. Are his visions guaranteed to be accurate? Errors do occur, it is admitted. "What if a devil or a witch or an angry ancestor interferes with the divination process for its own purposes, maybe to mislead the client with a false message?" What if, indeed? The author's fizz of comic energy is as wild and scornful as Richard Condon's, back...
Ezra Taft Benson had not appeared in public for two years. Toward the end, he could not leave his apartment and had to be fed by nasal tube. Yet he remained "Prophet, Seer and Revelator," the supreme authority of the Mormon Church until his death last week at the age of 94. A group of dark-suited apostles called the Council of the Twelve will gather this week in the central Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, to "set apart" a new prophet from among themselves. If tradition is a guide, they will select the chief of the council...