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Patrick also accuses Miller of a more unpardonable sin. "Arnold has betrayed the movement for democracy in the union," says Patrick. "He's behaving like a dictator." Miller has recently shown a draconian side, abruptly dismissing several top aides, beefing up security at the union's Washington headquarters and insisting that everyone, including Patrick, clear all travel with him. When one of Miller's secretaries was suspected of political plotting with Patrick, the door to her office was removed. (It has since been restored...
...proxy vote, when Bywater finally realized he had lost, he called off the fight and resigned from the board with two other directors, leaving the government in control with a seven-man majority on the board. Within hours, Bywater was replaced as chairman by Tun Tan Siew Sin, Malaysia's former Finance Minister. Said Bywater: "I guess we just ran out of steam...
...with all Bright operations, the 400,000 Here's Life volunteers around the country use Blight's 77-word version of Christianity, the Four Spiritual Laws. Law 1: "God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life." Law 2: "Man is sinful and separated from God" so he doesn't know about Law 1. Law 3: "Jesus Christ is God's only provision for man's sin . . ." Law 4: "We must individually receive Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God's love and plan...
Potential rivals have been dealt with ruthlessly. One, the relatively youthful Alexander Shelepin, 58, was dismissed from the Politburo almost two years ago and has not been heard of since. The sin of Whiz Kid Shelepin was that he tried to build a political base from which to promote his own post-Brezhnev candidacy for the top post. Another highly regarded younger man. Dmitri Polyansky, 59, had the misfortune of presiding as Minister of Agriculture during last year's disastrously poor grain harvest. Brezhnev blamed the harvest on bad weather but sent Polyansky packing as Ambassador to Japan anyway...
...fire-and-brimstone freak posing as mother in the case of one Carrie White. This specimen of faith-gone-fanatic seems straight out of Jonathan Edwards's congregation, dividing her time between spreading the Good Word among the suburban heathen and tormenting her daughter at the slightest hint of sin rearing its ugly head within Carrie. Mrs. White (played by Piper Laurie) has plainly left her mark on Carrie (played by Sissy Spacek); naive almost beyond belief, Carrie is utterly traumatized by the experience of her first period in the gym shower (as a high school senior, no less...