Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like something out of Stalin's Russia or Communist China: a head of government threatening to shut down Roman Catholic churches in his nation. But that warning comes this month from Zaïre's President Mobutu Sese Seko, a baptized Catholic whose nation has the largest Christian population in Africa. Mobutu says he will close any church whose priest does not stick to spiritual matters and keep silent on public issues, and there is little reason to doubt that he means it. His words follow some very specific works...
...that it was not the "evil" of the entire white race, but the oppression perpetrated by a certain segment of the white race, which kept the black man in chains. It became apparent to him that religious mysticism and supernatural explanations of oppression, whether they be Black Muslim or Christian, put forth no program for actually changing the conditions faced by an oppressed people. The Muslim faith had served its purpose for Malcolm it had provided him with confidence in his own dignity as a black man. But as he became aware of the need for a real strategy...
...Detroit, for example, Claud Young, head of the Michigan chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, wants the $200,000 earmarked by the school board for busing plans to be used instead to improve the schools, particularly in the area of vocational training. Young also opposes busing on the pragmatic ground that the reaction would make South Boston "look like a warmup." Still, Detroit, which has a 70% black enrollment, may face busing next fall. Last summer the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Detroit plan to merge the city and suburban schools, and ordered the school board to come...
...Washington's Birthday school vacation, Mario Thomas's Emmy award-winning Free to Be...You and Me will be shown daily for $.50. On the regular program beginning tonight is Bunuel's Simon of the Desert, among other things, a film from the director's Mexican period about a Christian mystic who moves to the top of a high pillar in the middle of the desert, hauling up his food by ropes, to commune with The Lord. As vicious about Catholicism as usual, with Bunuel's only attempt I've over seen to make a statement about "beat" culture (which...
Freeze Point. Publishers and station managers are responding to revenue pressures with extensive cost cutting. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, TIME, CBS and dozens of other major news organizations all have hiring freezes. The Christian Science Monitor is hiking its advertising and subscription rates and dropping some 100 employees. The Monitor is also switching to tabloid size in April, a move that will save $100,000 a year in paper costs. Newspaper Guild employees at the Washington Star-News voted to go on a four-day week, at four days' pay, in order to avoid...