September 2, 1985 Vol. 126 No. 9

Falwell's Fundamentalists 48

are out to remake church and society

No longer hovering behind sanctuary walls, doctrinaire U.S.

Protestants are zealously at work in communities across the land,

agitating over abortion, school prayer, pornography, gay lib and

now foreign policy. Their guidebook: a Bible deemed to be error-proof. Their weapons: dynamic leaders like Jerry Falwell, TV, hard cash and a friend in the White House. See RELIGION.

NATION: With an eye on the summit,12

the U.S. talks tough to the Soviets

Washington charges the kgb with using "spy dust" and decides to test a new antisatellite weapon, as superpower relations grow...

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