Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOHN URBAN Our Lady of the Assumption Church Beloit...
...double-dealers," the intellectuals who had protested the writers' trials, and promised that "these renegades" would be punished. Another trial was held in Leningrad, with 17 intellectuals convicted on the bizarre and clearly fabricated charge of conspiracy to replace the Soviet government with a democracy under the Russian Orthodox Church. Mass expulsions from the Writers and Artists Unions began; this meant loss of jobs and apartments. Among those expelled was Solzhenitsyn's close friend from camp days, the critic Lev Kopelev. Even scientists were suddenly no longer immune. Some top mathematicians who signed petitions were thrown out of the party...
...know. Somebody has dug up a hunch of graves at the church...
...group of 5000 people remained after the demonstration and said they would stay there until the government would either accept the six-point plan or agree to open discussion of it. During the demonstration, the bells of the Cathedral at the Zocalo were rung (with permission of the Church) to signify the quest for freedom, and a black and red flag was placed next to the Mexican flag to symbolize strike...
...with the students and opposed the idea of the meeting. The government called the red and black flag further evidence of the communist nature of the student revolution. The students were called anti-patriotic for daring to fly a flag alongside of the Mexican flag. The ringing of the church bells was cited as anti-religious. Thus it was clear, according to the government, that the students were against the Church, against the flag, and hence against the welfare of Mexico...