Word: rev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lookout for one of the gales that have claimed thousands of local sailors since the town was settled in 1623. But today a storm of quite a different kind is swirling through Gloucester. This one pits the townspeople against the Moonies, the disciples of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose Unification Church has been accused of brainwashing recruits, using questionable business practices and maintaining links with the secret intelligence services of South Korea. Complains Leo Alper, 66, the town's portly mayor: "I think eventually Moon would like to take over the city...
...Lord, who will wash the windows in the Rev. Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral...
...young blacks were looking up; they were coming out of the shadow of segregation; they were saying, 'I am somebody,' " recalls the Rev. Thomas Kilgore, who heads a predominantly black group of 218 activist clergymen in Los Angeles. "Now they don't feel that way. The black community does not have the kind of hope it had then...
...dominated school board that acquired a conservative majority in elections last year may be even more hostile. The new members contend they have a voter mandate to fight all plans for busing students to achieve better racial balance in the schools, despite court orders to the contrary. Charges the Rev. Kilgore: "It's a totally politicized board that couldn't care less about educating black children...
...Chicago's Rev. Jesse Jackson. A strong advocate of the theory that white America not only is racist but is losing any feelings of guilt, Jackson urges blacks to turn inward and help themselves. "You must aim high," he has advised. "You must believe you can become a doctor or lawyer or nurse or the alderman for your ward." After the Miami riots, Jackson told his followers in Chicago: "Our young people must not consider it a badge of courage, with blood in their eyes, to run headlong into an organized military brigade, and to run from genocide...