Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That crisis could occur sooner than Nyandoro anticipates. British intelligence recently advised Prime Minister James Callaghan that the breakaway colony is on the verge of collapse. The most optimistic forecast was that even if the voting and negotiations toward majority rule were stalled, Smith and his black colleagues could still survive attacks by the Patriotic Front until spring. The most pessimistic view: massacre and mob rule by September...
Awkwardly for Smith's government, the belt tightening took place just as the Salisbury government was trying to hush up an embarrassing financial scandal. Although Rhodesia's heavily censored newspapers gave few details, South African dailies printed the names of several Rhodesian officials who along with government businessmen diverted $1 million in arms-purchase funds into numbered Swiss bank accounts...
...word come? By one account, 13 Apostles (top leaders) experienced a common revelation at a prayer meeting on June 1. In other renditions it came complete with a visitation from Joseph Smith, the prophet of Palmyra, N. Y., who founded the faith in 1830. In an interview, his first since the announcement, Kimball described it much more matter of factly to TIME Staff Writer Richard Ostling: "I spent a good deal of time in the temple alone, praying for guidance, and there was a gradual and general development of the whole program, in connection with the Apostles...
Kimball's predecessors felt bound by the traditional interpretation of Smith's scriptures. Passages in the Book of Mormon consider dark skin a sign of God's disfavor, and the Book of Abraham specifies that Canaanites (interpreted as Africans) are "cursed as to the priesthood." Indeed, outside dissidents bought a full-page ad in the Salt Lake Tribune last week accusing Kimball of heresy and pointing out that Brigham Young declared that blacks would only get the priesthood after all "other descendants of Adam" had their chance...
Kimball is by no means the first Mormon leader to alter a major doctrine. The most famous earlier example occurred in 1890, when one of Prophet Smith's successors ended the "everlasting covenant" of polygamy after the practice had plunged the church into a bitter, and losing, battle with the U.S. Government...