Word: churches
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Walkers ranged in age and in affiliation. Hannah Embree and her sister from Wellesley, both senior citzens, completed the entire course and earmarked their funds for the Boston-Cambridge Ministry for Higher Education and the United Church of Christ Peace Ministry. Eight-year-old Elan Schwarz and his pal ten-year-old Kenji Foster said they were attending in the "cause of world peace and disarmament" with their parents and teacher from the Charles River School...
Family, friends and former students remembered the late Max Loehr, Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art Emeritus, at a service in Memorial Church yesterday...
...past two weeks, Dukakis and Jackson have made two joint appearances. Later, Dukakis even ventured into a Harlem church for a rare appearance on his own before a black audience. But the Dukakis-Jackson chill has affected Jackson's core constituency. A recent poll by the nonprofit Joint Center for Political Studies indicates that black turnout will drop substantially from 1984, and that black support for Bush appears to be almost 16%, nearly twice the percentage that Ronald Reagan received. In closely contested states like Illinois and Michigan, Dukakis needs nearly every black vote...
...Haiti's cruelest slums, scores of quasi-government thugs known as Tonton Macoutes, wearing telltale red armbands, stormed into a crowded Sunday Mass, attacking indiscriminately with knives, shooting wildly and torching the church. The toll of the rampage: 13 worshipers slain, more than 70 wounded and a gutted church building. But the apparent object of the attack, Father Jean- Bertrand Aristide, somehow managed to escape, as he had in five previous attempts on his life...
...politics, as you all know, 11 days is an eternity," Dukakis said at a morning rally at a Kansas City Baptist church before he flew to Detroit. "There is time...