During the Saturday morning session of general conference, 38 new Area Seventies were sustained (biographies and photographs will appear in a future edition of the Church News):
Pedro E. Abularach, 50, Guatemala City, Guatemala; Koichi Aoyagi, 63, Chiba-ken, Japan; Juan C. Barros, 50, Santiago, Chile; Colin H. Bricknell, 62, Krugersdorp, South Africa; Victor Kah Keng Chen, 53, Singapore; Kuo Chiang Chung, 53, Taipei, Taiwan; J. Devn Cornish, 56, Atlanta, Ga.; Wynn R. Dewsnup, 58, Ogden, Utah; Matthew J. Eyring, 38, Ashland, Mass.; G. Guillermo Garcia, 53, Santiago, Chile; Robert C. Gay, 56, Palm Beach, Fla.; Alfredo L. Gessati, 60, Merate, Italy; James B. Gibson, 59, Henderson, Nev.; Julio C. Gonzalez, 45, Monterrey, Mexico; Paulo H. Itinose, 41, Santana Aracatuba, Brazil; Douglas W. Jessop, 62, Pago Pago, American Samoa; Faustino Lopez, 57, Madrid, Spain; Declan O. Madu, 45, Owerri, Nigeria; Per G. Malm, 59, Goteborg, Sweden; Fernando Maluenda, 45, Penalolen, Chile; James B. Martino, 57, Aubrey, Texas; Sergiy N. Mikulin, 55, Kharkov, Ukraine; Abelardo Morales, 45, Monterrey, Mexico; W. T. David Murray, 49, Newmarket, Canada; Satoshi Nishihara, 56, Ushiku-shi, Japan; Norbert K. Ounleu, 38, Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Michael D. Pickerd, 49, Katy, Texas; Anatoly K. Reshetnikov, 55, Saratov, Russia; William F. Reynolds, 64, La Canada, Calif.; Michael A. Roberts, 57, Auckland, New Zealand; Fernando A. R. Da Rocha, 42, Seixal, Portugal; A. Ricardo Sant'Ana, 44, Santo Andre, Brazil; Robert B. Smith, 59, Downingtown, Pa.; Ysrael A. Tolentino, 43, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Ruben D. Torres, 47, Bogota, Colombia; J. Romeo Villarreal, 51, San Juan, Texas; Louis Weidmann, 54, Recherswil, Switzerland; Chi Hong (Sam) Wong, 45, Shatin, Hong Kong.