Word: rev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rather mild U.S. Attorney General under President Johnson, he made a celebrated wartime trip to Hanoi, where he audaciously attacked U.S. policies in the capital of the enemy. Before Watergate erupted, he lashed out at the Nixon Administration's anticrime and wiretapping policies. He defended the Rev. Philip Berrigan in his conspiracy trial. He allowed Herbert Blyden, a leader in the Attica rebellion, to second his nomination for the Senate at the state Democratic convention. By recently flying to Cuba to chat with Fidel Castro, Javits may have won back some of the deserting liberals. But to maintain...
...then, three years ago, the parish got a new pastor. He was the Rev...
...behind-the-scenes struggle burst into public view last June when the Rev. Eugene Stockwell, head of the council's overseas division, suddenly removed C.W.S. Director James Mac-Cracken, 52, a respected, tough-minded Presbyterian layman, who had held the post for nine years. Personalities and bureaucratic infighting played a major role in the MacCracken firing with three days' notice, but a basic dispute over philosophy brought things to a head. The day before he acted, Stockwell had met with the committee of denominational officials that oversees C.W.S. and in effect accused MacCracken of foot dragging...
Madeiros instructed Boles to recruit new personnel for the Center, thus effectively terminating the appointments of Rev. Robert Griffin, Anne Kelley and Carole Bohn, the Center's current staffers...
...went. And as I sat in the tiny plane, I listened to the Rev. Robert A. Bryan, the amazing man, talk. He was excited to be returning to the coast, to the scattered villages of no more than 300 people each that make up the parish where he is the travelling Anglican minister...