In Brief
In Brief
Saturday, October 28, 2006; Page B09
Colson Steps Down From Prison Fellowship
Watergate figure Charles W. Colson has stepped down as board chairman of Prison Fellowship USA, the ministry he started three decades ago after serving seven months of a federal sentence.
Colson, 75, will focus on teaching, speaking and writing for the organization, which is based in Lansdowne and runs Christian-based rehabilitation and support programs in prisons in all 50 states and 110 countries, according to a statement from the group.
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In 2002, Colson turned over day-to-day operation of the fellowship to former Virginia attorney general Mark Earley, who became the group's president and chief executive.
Michael T. Timmis will succeed Colson as chairman. Timmis is co-owner and vice chairman of Talon, a private investment company focused on leveraged buyouts. He became chairman of the Prison Fellowship International board in 1997.
Colson will remain a member of the Prison Fellowship USA board.
Special counsel in the Nixon administration, Colson pleaded no contest to obstruction of justice in the 1972 Watergate scandal. He became a born-again Christian, and he started Prison Fellowship in 1976.
-- Associated Press
Survey Finds U.S. Jews Back Palestinian State
More than half of American Jews think Israel properly handled its military strike on Hezbollah, but nearly the same percentage believe that neither side emerged as a winner, according to a new survey.
The poll, released Monday by the American Jewish Committee, found that 55 percent of respondents approved of Israel's actions in the conflict this past summer in Lebanon, but 49 percent thought neither Hezbollah nor Israel could be considered victorious.
Regarding the Palestinians, 54 percent of the respondents supported creating a Palestinian state, with 38 percent opposed and 9 percent uncertain.
