Word: rev
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...first of five in retaliation for February's rampage by an Israeli settler at the mosque in Hebron. On Thursday, a Palestinian gunman from the Islamic Jihad group shot an Israeli dead and wounded four others near the southern town of Ashdod. Following a speech in Hebron by the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday, the I.D.F. shot eight Palestinians with live and rubber bullets. Hamas warned that it would engulf the occupied territories in "real war" and vowed to turn Israel's independence day, April 14, "into hell." Israel responded by sealing off the occupied territories for one week...
...Board of Overseers unanimously elected this week as its president the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, the former president of the University of Notre Dame...
...advised marriages. Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey) is ward of her eccentric uncle Arthur (Robert Hardy), who is known as "the worst landlord in the county" for the shabby way he treats his tenants. Dorothea's desire to improve the lot of others leads her to wed the Rev. Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide), a scholar and cleric more than twice her young age. She is enraptured by his dream -- to write a book proving that all religions stem from the same source...
...afternoon of March 25, he was at home in the apartment the police had targeted. An informant had told them that drugs and guns were stashed in a second-floor room at 118 Whitfield Street. With a "no- knock" warrant, they burst into the home of the Rev. Accelynne Williams, killing him with fright. Had the cops checked their records, they would have learned that a drug warrant issued last September targeted an apartment on the third floor...
...They should be able to know the difference between decent, God-fearing people and the criminals," thundered the Rev. Albert J.D. Aymer at Parkway United Methodist Church. "Reverend Williams is dead today because of a society that has gone stark mad," he declared. It is one, however, that still acknowledges remorse. Last week Boston's mayor, Thomas Menino, and police commissioner Paul Evans appeared at a community meeting to take the heat. "It is historic for a mayor and police commissioner to come out and say, 'I'm sorry,' " says Rodney Foxworth, co-chairman of a neighborhood council. The mayor...