Word: rev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some Washington officials thought the Hove affair, by undercutting the credibility of the internal settlement, might encourage Smith and his colleagues to join such a conference. It could also spur the Salisbury government to avoid similar embarrassments in the future and to broaden its popular support. Last week the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, another black council member, said flatly that the next two months would probably tell the story on whether the internal settlement is going to work...
...ROTC, with increasingly loud murmurs emanating from the corpse that was the Selective Service System, and with the Pentagon's computers humming and clicking along, playing a neat counterpoint in the background. Of course, not everyone agrees with what is going on: at Georgetown University, for instance, the Rev. Richard T. McSorley, professor of theology, still demonstrates alone against the school's ROTC program. Decrying what he calls the army's attempt "to 'psychologize' students into accepting militarism," McSorely marches alone every week in front of the school's main library, wearing a sandwich board that asks, "Would...
...First Church of God in tiny (pop. 6,800) Benton, Ill., has a new patron saint of sorts: Elvis Presley. The fundamentalist church's affiliation with the late rock star began last February when the Rev. Lloyd Tomer was faced with a $1 million debt from the building of his new chapel. The 500 parishioners were praying daily for the Lord to show them some way to pay their debt when, according to Tomer, God answered in the person of one Robert Philpot, a Dallas oilman. In search of a promotion gimmick to introduce his new engine additive, called...
...that operate in South Africa should follow employment practices that will ameliorate the effects of apartheid with respect to their own employees, even where such action impinges on profitability. Specifically, we believe that all companies operating in South Africa should implement the principles first proposed in 1977 by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a director of General Motors Corporation, and to date endorsed by at least 61 corporations. Implementation of these principles would require a company...
Challenor, the fourth lecturer in the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Series, spoke before 20 people. She said she believes "the United States still confuses nationalism with communism and sees its policy towards Communist countries...