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13-January-1997 
 
 
97017                   Notes about People 
 
                      by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
     Howard Salzman, for many years the vice chair of the Global Mission 
Ministry Unit Committee of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a driving 
force behind the denomination's involvement in Latin America, died at his 
home in McLean, Va., on Dec. 31. 
     The Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, who worked closely with Salzman as 
director of the Global Mission Ministry Unit, said Salzman was "a 
tremendous source of vision and encouragement for all of us with his deep 
knowledge of Latin America, his love of the church, his keen sense of how 
organizations work, and his heartfelt love for people.  He was a real jewel 
in our midst." 
     Funeral services for Howard Salzman were scheduled for Jan. 9 at the 
Lewinsville Presbyterian Church in McLean (near Washington, D.C.) with 
interment at the Arlington National Cemetary. Kirkpatrick has been asked to 
participate in the leadership of the service. 
 
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     Longtime Washington religion correspondent David E. Anderson became 
editor of Religion News Service on Jan. 1.  Anderson, 55, a native of 
Minneapolis, has been RNS' Washington correspondent since 1992. He spent 24 
years as a Washington correspondent for United Press International, 
covering virtually all aspects of the federal government and national 
politics, reporting on the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s 
and 1970s and the struggle over legal abortion in the 1980s and1990s. He 
became UPI's religion editor in 1974. 
     Anderson succeeds Joan Connell, who is moving to Seattle to join her 
husband, Dean Wright, a producer at MSNBC on the Internet. She will remain 
senior editor at RNS and write regular pieces.  
     Religion News Service was established in 1934 by the National 
Conference of Christians and Jews as a bias-free source of news about 
belief.  It currently serves more than 100 daily newspapers, broadcast 
organizations such as ABC's "World News Tonight" and National Public Radio, 
and more than 200 religious publications and organizations, including the 
Presbyterian News Service. 

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