Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came under fire from the Church committee's scrutiny because it also had made a highly improper request of IRS. In 1964, the committee revealed at a public hearing last week, the FBI asked IRS for the names of donors to Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. According to Church, the FBI got the names from IRS and planned to send out phony letters, using the stationery of the target civil rights group, to all donors. The letters, which were to have included King's copied signature, would have warned that IRS was launching...
...left-wing groups, a much broader spectrum was represented by the astonishing number of political leaders who damned the Spanish regime with rhetoric usually reserved for wartime enemies. Britain's Foreign Secretary, James Callaghan, almost joyfully asserted that the Franco government was in its death throes, and Italian Christian Democrat Paolo Cabras branded the regime "a continuing curse against all free men." Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme described the Madrid government as so many "satanic murderers"; Reiulf Steen, chairman of Norway's ruling Labor Party, defined the Franco regime as "a black barbarity." Steen implored his countrymen...
...Jews, is even more important for the University as an academic institution. However, Judaism is not only a subject of academic interest but is also the living religion of a substantial group in this university. Just as the study of the history and literature of Christianity has not obviated the need for Christian worship, so does the study of the history and literature of the Jewish people not obviate the need for Jewish worship and religious practice. One wonders why the University did not seek funds for this purpose. Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold
...building, every week. And as to the church building Jews and Catholics contributed money generously to build this Memorial, which was then dedicated as a Protestant Church, with crosses carved right into the woodwork. The official University service for freshman, to which the Rabbi referred, was a Christian, a Protestant service, in which no Jew could in conscience participate, based as it was upon Trinitarian prayers and readings...
Harvard used to be a purely Christian institution, he said, "now it's open to Jews but it's still Christian. Some Jews say 'it's not so bad' but I don't think any American should accept a 'good enough' situation...