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n mid-l981, a fascinating letter turned up which seemed to challenge the leadership hierarchy of the Utah Mormon Church tmore properly, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saintsi. Written by Founder Joseph P. Smith, Jr., in 1844, the letter clearly decreed that ii . . . the anointing of the progenitor shall be on the head of my son, and his seed after him, from generation to genera- tion. The document apparently did not unduly trouble the Mormons. They calmly traded it for an 1833 Mormon book, valued at $20,000, with the Missouri-based Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, who have always chal- lenged the validity of Brigham Young,s succession to Joseph P. Smith, and the leadership of the Utah Mormons by the senior member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles. The Missouri group has always been led by a descendant of Smith. Cults were also doing well in 1981. The Way, an Ohio-based group boasting 30,000 members and led by Victor Paul Wierville, sent musi- cal ambassadors to Denver early in the year in the form of the pop band 8Takit, which performed at Colorado Womenis College. The Ways teach- ings included the notion that the Nazi's mass murder of six million Jews never occurred, that rock music is bad for the mind, and that, in Wierville,s words, uChristians aren,t a bunch of lollipops . . . If you have to kick a few butts, well, you have to do it. The Rocky Mountain News noted in an editorial towards the middle of the year that the IRS was finally catching up with some of the approx- imately 10,000 Americans who each year send away for bogus certificates ordaining themselves ministers, in order to donate their property to their ministry and thus escape taxation. But up to mid-year, the Rev. Syung Moon was revving up his takeover of the Gloucester, Mass., fishing industry and others on the nation's coasts. Apparently, Moon's system of corporations within corpor- ations was too complex to be easily busted. Rising Crime he seventies bequeathed to the eighties a steady increase in violent crime. By 1979, according to FBI estimates, 535 persons out of every 100,000 were victims of violent crime, an increase of 15078 over 1970. By other estimates, a person was murdered in the US. every 24 min- utes, a woman raped every seven, a house burglarized every ten. Things did not seem to have improved since the spring of 1980, when a nationwide survey of 1,047 adults, carried out by the public relations company of Ruder and Finn, showed that four out of ten Americans were 1highly fearful of becoming victims of violent crime. In the survey, high marks were given to the police, low marks to the criminal justice system in dealing with persons arrested by the police and charged with a crime. These sentiments were shared by no less a personage than Chief Justice Warren Burger, who let the nation know, in very explicit terms, of his concern over rising crime. Calling for more tax dollars to be spent fighting crime, Burger noted that while a shocking one in four Americans is likely to be a victim, only one in 108 of persons arrested, according to a New York Times report, is likely to be punished in any way. The Chief Justice pointed out that a great many of the 300,000 persons serving time in prison in 1981 were under the age of 30, and that a majority could not meet basic reading, writing and arithmetic stan- dards. His proposals to remedy the situation included tighter bail release conditions, faster trials, improved educational facilities for criminals, more family visitation rights for inmates, and after-release counseling programs. Said he: iiThis illness our society suffers has been generations developing, but we should begin at once to divert the next generation from the dismal paths of the past and try to make homes and schools and streets safe for all. Recall on Regulations n an effort to make the ailing US. auto industry more competitive, the Rea- gen Administration in April 1981 eliminated thirty-four air quality and safety regulations from American cars. The estimated savings were $1.3 billion to automakers and $8 billion to consumers over the first half of the 19805. Among the rules taken off the books: bumpers that withstand 5 m'ph crashes without denting, fuel-efficiency standards due to take effect after 1985, and automatic seat belts which had been scheduled for introduction in 1982. By early 1981, the average GM car was costing $10,000. Sales were going so badly for American carmakers that they were offering rebates worth up to $700 to anyone who would buy one of their cars.
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