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...following trends at other sanctuary churches and support groups across the country, local groups at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Harvard Square have been hit by at least seven burglaries in the past 18 months. The break-ins at the Massachusetts Ave. church, which harbors a Salvadoran refugee and houses several groups opposing U.S. policies in Central America, have prompted growing fears among activists that they are the targets of an active intimidation campaign by either the government or right-wing organizations...
...supplies were donated by Boston University Medical School and local doctors and stored in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, across the street from the Freshman Union...
...government is complicit in these break-ins," said Bob Warren of the Central America Solidarity Association, whose office in the basement of the old Cambridge Baptist Church has been broken into six times in 16 months...
...N.A.A.C.P. organized a boycott of Dearborn's stores, including those at Fairlane Town Center, a 2,360-acre complex that includes the state's largest shopping mall. Before the boycott, an estimated 28% of Fairlane's shoppers were black. Says the Rev. Charles Adams, minister of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church and head of the Detroit N.A.A.C.P.: "They welcome us to shop in their stores, but don't allow us to stop in their parks. If we're not good enough to stop, we feel we're too good to shop...
...town see it differently. Burdella Minter, who moved to Hanford in 1973, began researching Hillery's case after being asked to sign one of the petitions to deny him parole. An organist for the black congregation of the Second Baptist Church, she helped lead a drive in support of parole for Hillery, mustering 480 signatures. Minter believes that if a fair trial finds Hillery guilty, he should go back to prison. "If you do the crime, you do the time," she says, with the air of someone who has thought about what the words mean: her own stepson is serving...