Word: church
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush administration continues to be blind to the human rights abuses perpetrated by the right-wing regime we support in El Salvador. Even after the arrest of a U.S. church worker in San Salvador earlier this week, the administration unswervingly insists that the battle against communism in El Salvador has priority over the well-being of pacifist American citizens in the region...
...official CTK news agency said Parliament, until now a rubber-stamp body under firm Communist control, also would be open to discussion of any draft laws. Vladimir Janku, head of the state's commission on church affairs, was quoted as saying these changes would include new laws on religion that would end state control over churches and the criticized practice of licensing priests...
Hundreds of thousands of joyous workers streamed into the city's center, carrying banners of their factories, firms and offices in an outpouring of national pride and support for democratic reforms. Sirens howled and church bells pealed as the strike began at noon...
Discontent boiled over last summer when local election returns gave an improbable 98.85% of the vote to the Communist Party. That anger found an outlet at the Nikolai Church, downtown, where a small band of peace activists had been meeting. Almost overnight their number grew into a mass movement for political freedom. "We didn't start this," says Pastor Christian Fuhrer, "but we protected it. We were the catalysts...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, Robert Hughes, Walter Isaacson, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...