Word: america
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harrell, 57, is a white-haired former millionaire (mausoleums, real estate) with a radio preacher's voice and the affable manner of a small-town politician. He founded the league's progenitor, the Christian Conservative Churches of America, two decades ago, between a bout with lymph cancer (he won) and his 1960 campaign to be one of Illinois' U.S. Senators (he lost). Shortly after he built this ersatz Mount Vernon-as a tribute to his beloved George Washington and a home for his family of nine-federal agents battered down the gate with an armored personnel carrier...
...America is not just heading down the primrose path to perdition, they fear; it is already there. "We're going to have a full-scale revolution," says Harrell, his voice rising. "We've got half the world's wealth, and the rest of 'em are coming to take it from us. The black man's angry, the yellow man's angry. Everybody's angry but the white man, and he's asleep...
...weekend combines politics with survival. Participants work out a 16-point "platform to revitalize America." Among the proposals: U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations, an end to all foreign aid, repudiation of the national debt, abolition of the Federal Reserve System, and repeal of federal and state income tax laws. The delegates listen to a parade of speakers decry Communism, Zionism, U.S. foreign policy, Big Government, and politicians who ignore their constituents...
...more ebullient tone: "I reject those views completely. They are counsels of defeat and despair, excuses for leadership that has failed to do its job." He echoes, deliberately and inevitably, the older brothers who were assassinated. "We can light those beacon fires again," he promises. "From the hilltops of America, we can send another call to arms, a call for more effective action on all the challenges we face." The crowd of 600 partisan Democrats roars in approval, and when Kennedy strides off the stage, the six-piece band in the balcony plays music from Camelot...
...Israel. To say that I have equated the price of oil to the liberty of Israel is rank distortion." The U.S., he said, is forever committed "by moral imperative" to protect Israel. But he refused to retract his plea for a new realism, adding: "I'm only saying America has broader interests in the Middle East...