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...important in its implications. He is mobilizing and altering the consciousness of that once insular component of American religion known as Fundamentalism. Before Falwell, Fundamentalist preachers denounced evil in "the world" in order to compel their flocks into strict isolation from it. Nowadays those same jeremiads are a stern call to social action. "When I was growing up," recalls Fundamentalist Pastor Keith Gephart of Alameda, Calif., "I always heard that churches should stay out of politics. Now it seems almost a sin not to get involved...
From tiny rural chapels where true believers seated on rickety folding chairs profess "born-again" faith, to handsome, stately churches like Falwell's with memberships the size of small towns, Protestant Fundamentalism has become a powerful, confident and important force. Popularly associated with stern opposition to such personal "sins" as drinking, smoking and gambling, Fundamentalism draws upon the entire heritage of American revivalism, with its code of personal piety and insistence upon conscious commitment to Jesus Christ as one's "personal Savior...
...while two men broke into the apartment of an accused swindler, murdered him with 13 bayonet stabs, then emerged blood splattered to a press corps stunned, but not too stunned to keep the TV cameras rolling. It led to West Germany, where a couple of magazines, Bunte Illustrierte and Stern, tried to auction off to other media bits of Mengele, photographs, letters and other memorabilia. Finally, it led to Beirut, where during 17 days of astonishing symbiosis, television and terrorists co- produced -- there is no better word -- a hostage drama...
...immigrations stir hatreds, but if anything, the new Asians at least may be more welcome than most of the Italians in the generation of Lee Iaccoca's father. So many of the Asians come from the middle class, or aspire to the middle class, and are driven by a stern Confucian ethic...
Many of the paper's 150 staffers worry about Stern's vague politics ("I have not been politically active," he says. "I guess I'm a liberal"), and his company's reputation. In 1978 federal officials ordered Hartz to rehire employees who had been fired during a union-organizing drive, and last year the firm pleaded guilty to perjury and obstruction of justice in an antitrust suit. But veteran Voicers take comfort from the Murdoch reign. Says Columnist Jack Newfield: "I thought Murdoch, on paper, was going to turn out to be a monster, but he gave us complete freedom...