Holdeman Mennonites Cleansing Sparks Excommunications Rise
AP reports on the Holdeman Mennonites driving a cleansing to purge worldliness, using excommunication as a tool for 119 years. McPherson Kansas center of leadership home to about 2,600 of 10,000 members. Excommunications rise, panels formed to speed purges, and former adherents recount personal splits and loyalties within this insular denomination.
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White House
Elvey Unruh
Unrah
Unruh
Old Mennonite Church
Shallow Water
Kan
Haldeman
Clarence Hiebert
Mennonite Brethren Church
Joe
Christmas Day Hijacker Charged in Atlanta Flight
Nikolai Wischnewsky 32 of Pearl River New York faced air piracy charges after a Christmas Day hijack of an Eastern DC-9 about 50 miles from Atlanta. He allegedly used a log pistol and a taped radio to resemble a bomb and demanded Cuba. Passengers and crew were released or allowed to depart with no injuries as FBI agents subdued him in Fulton County jail.
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Nikolai Wischnewsky
Pearl River
N.Y
Fulton County
Wischnewsky
Jacksonville
Fla
FBI
Cuba
PanAm to Appeal Carter Decision on Dallas to London Route
Pan American World Airways plans an appeal after President Carter awarded the Dallas Fort Worth to London nonstop route to Braniff Airlines. PanAm asked CAB for a 90 day delay to prepare its appeal. if denied, the routes would take effect once the revised order is approved. The White House denied political influence in Braniff’s win amid Texas pressure.
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Carter
Braniff
Pan American
Europe
Texas
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