Page 8 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRILS, 1980
nation
FBI’s ‘most wanted’ man
Mormons celebrate
their 150th birthday
charged with gun violation
United Press International
EVANSTON, Ill. — Eleven sus
pected Puerto Rican terrorists were
carried and shoved into court Mon
day and formally charged with a sev
eral weapons violations.
Ten of the suspected FALN lead
ers were physically carried into the
courtroom. The other, Carlos Alber
to Torres, No. 1 on the FBI’s “most
wanted” list at the time of the mass
arrest Friday, was pushed into the
chamber.
The suspects, held in lieu of $2
million bond each, said during a
weekend court appearance they do
not respect the jurisdiction of United
States courts.
Evanston police posted guards
with shotguns outside the city lockup
and other policemen with rifles were
posted on rooftops. About 20 persons
demonstrated outside the cour
troom, carrying signs and chanting
slogans in Spanish.
Police said the arrests, which fob
lowed a tip from an Evanston resi
dent suspicious of activity around a
parked van, might have thwarted
FALN plans to disrupt the Democra
tic and Republican national conven
tions this summer.
Among the disruptive tactics in
the works, investigators said, were
calls to Carter-Mondale delegates
warning they would be killed if they
did not resign their delegate posi
tions. Those calls began last month,
officials said.
Several of the suspects also are
suspects in last month’s invasion of
the Carter-Mondale Chicago cam
paign headquarters. In that raid,
campaign workers were bound and
Puerto Rican independence slogans
painted on the walls of the office.
The arrests also were expected to
deal a crippling blow to the FALN, a
group which has been blamed for
hundreds of bombings, most of them
in Chicago and New York, as part of
its campaign for Puerto Rican inde
pendence.
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SALT LAKE CITY — During its
first 150 years, the Mormon Church
has survived attacks by angry mobs,
the U.S. Army, Congress, civil
rights leaders and liberated women.
The Mormons did more than sur
vive. Their numbers grew — from
six members on April 6, 1830, to 4.3
million members at the church’s
150th birthday celebration this year.
Once located mostly in Utah and
surrounding states, the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints now
has 12,000 congregations in 81 coun
tries. It has a force of 30,000 mis
sionaries in the field seeking new
members.
Two-thirds of the world’s Mor
mons live in the U.S. and one-fourth
of them — 1.06 million — live in
Utah.
California has the next largest
number of Latter-day Saints —
513,000, followed by Idaho 304,000,
Arizona 173,000, and Washington
125,000. Vermont is the state with
the smallest Mormon population,
1,400.
After the United States, Mexico
has the largest Mormon population,
247,000.
“Our mission is to teach the gospel
to every nation, kindred, tongue and
people,’’ said Gordon B. Hinckley, a
member of the church’s Quorum of
12 Apostles.
Hinckley believes the church has a
universal appeal because of its strong
emphasis on family life and its basic
doctrines “challenge people to rise
above their circumstances and im
prove themselves.’’
The faith promotes a healthy lifes
tyle. Members are advised not to
drink alcohol, coffee, tea or other
drinks with caffeine. They are told
not to smoke and to eat meat sparing
ly. Athletics are also encouraged.
The religion demands financial
sacrifice. Members are asked to pay
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In a symbolic demonstration of the
church’s progress, the celebration
was to open Sunday with a live satel
lite broadcast, featuring Mormon
President Spencer W. Kimball, from
a restored log farmhouse in Fayette,
N.Y., where the religion was first
formally incorporated in 1830.
The church entered the 20th Cen
tury nearly broke. But it slowly be
gan to rebuild and to place more
emphasis on foreign missionary
work. In 1930, the church’s centen
nial year, Mormons numbered
672,000. Twenty years later, the
church reached 1 million members.
But the 1950s brought new prob
lems. Civil rights leaders and other
religions condemned the church for
excluding blacks from its all-male,
non-professional priesthood, which
was given to all other men in good
standing.
But Mormon President Spencer
M. Kimball, 85, roused the ire of
women’s rights advocates by conde
mning the Equal Rights Amendment
as a threat to morality and traditional
family life. Mormon groups, follow
ing his counsel as church prophet,
have waged political campaigns to
defeat it in several state legislatures.
The issue brought the church
much unfavorable publicity last year
when local Mormon leaders in Virgi
nia excommunicated Sonia Johnson,
a Mormon ERA supporter who se
verely criticized the church’s male
patriarchy.
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war candidate, says the United
States should be planning a blockade
and selective air strikes against Iran
to break the hostage stalemate.
McGovern, D-S.D., Monday
agreed with President Carter’s deci
sion to break diplomatic relations
with Iran, but said Iranian diplomats
in the United States should be taken
into custody instead of expelled.
He also said, “The administration
should begin planning for long-term
action, including a blockade and
selective air strikes if necessary to
resolve this unprecedented and out
rageous kidnapping.”
McGovern said U.S. allies must
join in the economic sanctions and
realize if thbse measures fail, “it is
difficult to see how the United States
can avoid more drastic action.
Republican presidential frontrun
ner Ronald Reagan called Carter’s
moves against Iran “more of the
same” and an extension of policies
that were “wrong from the first.
But Democrat Edward Kennedy
and the other two Republican pres
idential candidates, George Bush
and John Anderson, supported —
with reservations — Carter’s deci
sions to break relations and i®
strong sanctions on Iran.
Both Kennedy, in PhiUlAA
and Anderson, in Los hm
emphasized the need towfL Unit
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Bush, in Washington, cly military
Carter had “manipulated tkivolvemei
media for the benefit of his lominica
election campaign. It is tilBee said
American people recognize Guerrilla
nian policy for what it is: OMent, knov
lure, inaction and even caltfe embas:
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told a news conference sancfcil, Guiller
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been decreasing with Iran s ibio Tibu
militants took over. & a secre
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