Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balanced, to some extent, by promises from both sides to work together against racism and injustice. But the sense of outrage came through even more clearly in individual declarations. Defending the new black support for the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker of Harlem's Canaan Baptist Church said the Palestinians "are the niggers of the Mideast." Nathan Perlmutter, director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, called the black leaders' charges an "amalgam of half-truths, untruths and anti-Semitic nonsense." Howard Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress, accused...
Obasanjo, a devout Baptist who became the military regime's leader in 1976, has had only mixed success in persuading Nigerians to curb their big spending. The need is urgent because the country's appetite for grandiose public projects, as well as for needed social welfare programs, far outstrips its oil reserves. But Obasanjo has had no trouble at all in selling his people on a return to democracy; Nigerians, as one Lagos official says bluntly, are "tired of dictatorship...
...wild and woolly world of collegiate schooling. Of course, Pappa and I had different conceptions of what Harvard College was all about. To me, Harvard was principally highbrow conversations, a way to impress people at cocktail parties, and, most of all, a ticket out of the boondocks, where strict Baptist morality posed considerable obstacles to my social education...
When the President gave his big speech he sounded like a Baptist minister, declared Cliff. He's the greatest President we've had since Nixon, offered Lou. Wait a minute, came another voice. What about Ford? He wouldn't like that. There was a little more Sanka and waves more of laughter among old friends...
...58th Street south of Tampa, Fla., where the houses thin out and the land turns to strawberry and tomato fields, lives Gary Berrien, 17, one of ten children of Ezell, a roofer, and Mildred, an organist at the nearby New Progress Missionary Baptist Church. Gary plays the organ for pay on Sunday at three churches in the neighborhood, but he has not found a full-time job since completing the twelfth grade at Hillsborough High School. He wanted to join the Army but decided against it when a recruiter asked for his high school diploma. Gary had to tell...