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Last June in St. Louis, well-organized conservatives at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention elected a stem-winding preacher named Bailey Smith, 41, as president of the nation's biggest Protestant group (13.4 million members). Smith, who trained at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and is a pastor at the First Southern Baptist Church in Del City, Okla., managed to keep a low profile until a big August political rally in Dallas, organized by the rising Protestant right. Reporters flocked to a press conference where Ronald Reagan was holding forth in favor of biblical creationism...
...Jacobs' eye. Jacobs, a balding, cherubic man who was then story editor of ABC's Family, had the idea for an hourlong series, "a sort of American Scenes from a Marriage. "Richard Burger, then head of dramatic development at CBS, suggested that Jacobs "try something rich and Southwestern instead of middle-class and Californian." Recalls Jacobs: "I went home and wrote a letter to myself about this terribly good-looking, semitrashy lady who marries into a rich Texas family." Jacobs envisioned this character, Pamela Barnes Ewing, taking on heroic proportions, shaking off her shady past and winning...
...others, accused the government of "breaking a pledge." Responding to such criticism at a government press conference, Junta Member Sergio Ramirez insisted that the elections had "not been shoved off to one side," but rather that their timing was a "political decision." Earlier, Ramirez had told reporters in the southwestern town of Monimbó that he hoped to see national assembly elections within four years. All parties probably agreed with Ramirez in rejecting "the democracy that Somoza gave us when he bought votes with cheap booze and free meals...
Though the Southwestern U.S. is accustomed to sizzling summers, temperatures last week topped 100° day after day in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, breaking records up to 100 years old. Some 145 people, most of them elderly, died of heat complications; Texas alone had 78 deaths...
...eruption, outside the immediate area of Mount St. Helens, will be the monumental nuisance of the cleanup. Volcanic ash fell in amounts estimated at eight tons per acre in the Moscow-Pullman area of Idaho, 300 miles from Mount St. Helens, and 350 Ibs. per acre in southwestern Montana, roughly 400 miles away. The fine, gritty ash drifted into everything: aircraft engines, sewage and water treatment plants, tractor gears, washing machines. One official at Washington State University warned homemakers to use only detergents when washing clothes because soap might mix with ash in the water, forming a sludge that would...