Word: rev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wrong again. Ollie North kept arranging arms sales. There were at least four: in February, May, July and October. Three hostages eventually were released: the Rev. Benjamin Weir in September 1985, Father Lawrence Jenco last July and David Jacobsen in November. But three more Americans were kidnaped in Lebanon beginning in September. Even so, Reagan clung to his Iranian initiative to the bitter end. In his Nov. 19 press conference, after the storm had broken, the President voiced a wan hope that diplomatic contacts with Iran could continue, and Shultz had to practically bludgeon the President into announcing that there...
...civil rights leader, the Rev. Jesse Jackson achieved his greatest gains -- and publicity -- through boycotts of consumer products whose makers discriminate against minorities. Now Jackson has taken his campaign to Japan, whose auto and electronics corporations not only export to the U.S. but are a growing presence in American manufacturing. At rallies and press conferences during his five-day visit, Jackson attacked Japanese firms for ignoring minorities. He asserted that blacks in the U.S. own some 2 million Japanese cars but have fewer than five dealerships nationwide. If Japan's businesses do not enter into a "mutually respectful and beneficial...
Until a permanent occupant can be found for the Stillman Professorship of Catholic Studies, three visiting professors, Francis S. Fiorenza, Rev. John W. O'Malley, S.J., and Rev. J. Bryan Hehir will share the spot this fall and spring. The chair was most recently held by the late Dean of the Divinity School, Rev. George McCade, S.J., who died last year...
Despite the botched delivery, the next month, an American hostage, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, was freed. In his press conference last week, Attorney General Edwin Meese contended that Reagan did not know about the Israeli shipment until after it had occurred, but he did not specify when the President was told. Reagan telephoned Peres to thank him for his help in winning the clergyman's release. Thus the mold was cast for future swaps involving arms and hostages...
...black leaders in Boston and New York City have denounced the clinics as racist. In Chicago, 13 black clergymen are suing to block distribution of contraceptives at the DuSable High School clinic. Says the Rev. Hiram Crawford: "If these clinics are so good for black kids, why don't they put them in white areas? It's a form of genocide. Why do they so readily recommend abortion...