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...against the 22,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in the African nation of Malawi. The Witnesses have been outlawed there since 1967 on the grounds that they are "dangerous to the government," but they have persisted as an underground church. Malawi President-for-life Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda, a staunch elder in Malawi's Presbyterian Church of Central Africa, has become increasingly angered by the "devil's Witnesses," their unwillingness to join his ruling Congress Party, their refusal to take loyalty oaths, and their exclusivist claims to religious truth. A Congress Party convention in September demanded that...
...Biden Jr. in Delaware, Dick Clark in Iowa and William D. Hathaway in Maine?are liberals. Haskell, 56, a tax lawyer, is a former Republican who turned Democrat two years ago in protest over Administration policies culminating in the U.S. movement into Cambodia. New Republican Senators-elect are mostly staunch conservatives: James A. McClure in Idaho, Jesse Helms in North Carolina, Dewey Bartlett in Oklahoma and William L. Scott in Virginia...
...ready whenever voters question his differences with President Nixon. "Each man is an individual with whom party loyalty and responsibility are secondary concepts," suggests former Congressman Robert Duncan, who has run unsuccessfully for the Senate against both Hatfield and Morse. But that, plus the fact that both men are staunch doves on Viet Nam, does not make for a heady campaign; between them, they may set a record for low spending-an estimated total of $400,000-by serious candidates in a Senate election...
...that can be heard for blocks around-their way of protesting steadily worsening food shortages. Some mornings, people gather outside the Bernardo O'Higgins Military School and pelt cadets with wheat and rice, amid shouts of "Gallinas, gallinas!" (chickens, chickens), a gibe at the army's staunch refusal to oust President Salvador Allende Gossens...
Died. William Fitts Ryan, 50, Congressman from Manhattan who helped found New York's Democratic Party reform movement in the 1950s and who, during the past twelve years in the House, was among the earliest opponents of the war and a staunch advocate of such causes as women's rights, mainland China's admission to the U.N. and reduced military spending; of cancer; in New York City...