Word: rev
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...running for something. "I've been to 60 schools," he says, "visiting five to six classrooms a day, plus a speech at the Rotary Club and jogging." This week will bring more of the same, with speeches in New York City on disadvantaged children, Atlanta in observance of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, San Antonio on bilingual education, then Los Angeles to boost art education...
...represented the most brazen of several challenges last week to the Pretoria government. In the coastal city of Port Elizabeth, the Rev. Allan Hendrickse, one of Botha's two nonwhite Cabinet ministers, led a group of 30 | protesters to whites-only King's Beach for a chilly ten-minute "splashabout" in defiance of the law. Proclaimed Hendrickse: "This is God's beach!" In the Transvaal, Ster-Kinekor, South Africa's main distributor of foreign films, said it would stop supplying U.S. productions from Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures unless whites-only admissions policies were dropped. Ster-Kinekor said...
Garrow writes that partly as a result of the FBI's intimidation, King often suffered from morbid depression, a contention hotly contested by some of his heirs. Says the Rev. Jesse Jackson: "The thesis that his personal life was so convoluted that he couldn't function with clarity is contrary to the facts. What I saw was courage to the point of crucifixion." Some of King's associates object to Garrow's revelations. Even if true, says Wyatt Walker, former staff chief to King, "how does that change the value of his contribution toward sensitizing the nation on the moral...
...size of the Black student body began to increase--and still supports almost a dozen Afro-American organizations on campus. Since the 1970s, Blacks have also held prominent leadership positions in campus administration, including Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Rev. Peter J. Gomes, who is the minister of Memorial Church...
...soon in demand among conservative groups nationwide. His remarks in Nashville, quoted from a tape obtained by the Washington Post, were to the Council for National Policy, a group of about 500 influential conservatives including Colorado Brewer Joseph Coors, Texas Millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt and the Rev. Jerry Falwell. "Ollie let you know what is really going on in Central America," says Bradley Keena, political director of the Leadership Foundation, another conservative lobby. "Nobody really knew like Ollie knew...