Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...room Fort Harrison Hotel, a downtown landmark, and a nearby bank building. Southern Land stated that the hotel would stay open, but another spokesman announced that it would become a center for the United Churches of Florida, a new ecumenical outfit that soon won endorsement from twelve local clergymen...
According to Emergency Decree No. 9, criticizing the South Korean government is an offense punishable by not less than a year in prison. The decree, promulgated last May, was designed by President Park Chung Hee to stifle opposition, principally from intellectuals and Christian clergymen, to his authoritarian rule. But dissent continues in South Korea, and so, in the spirit of Decree No. 9, does repression...
...Jung, 50, the opposition leader who won 45% of the vote in the presidential elections of 1971 and has since been subject to almost continual government harassment-including a kidnaping in broad daylight from a Tokyo hotel by KCIA agents in 1973. Along with Kim, some 15 Christian clergymen were brought in to KCIA headquarters for interrogation, including Kim Kwan Suk, 57, the secretary general of the National Council of Churches in Korea. Also arrested were former Foreign Minister Chyung Yil Hyung, 72, and his wife. Kim Kwan Suk and several other dissidents (including seven women) were later released...
Freer Sex. The clergymen still turned out by the Big Five, says the report, go through training that has lost much of its onetime scholarly rigor. Elective courses have proliferated as the schools try to please students with incoherent vocational goals. At the same time, language requirements and basic required courses in the Bible, church history and doctrine have vanished. Students learn a little about a lot, but never master any one religious tradition. The schools provide "general education for those interested in a diffuse variety of religious studies, personal quests for the meaning of life, social activism and pastorally...
...believe that invasion was imminent in the Balkans, then in Norway and finally, even after Dday, in the area of Calais. "Special means" had created phantom invasion forces in East Anglia, opposite Calais, complete with phony inflatable tanks that looked real from the air and "complaints" from clergymen about the soldiers' habit of discarding condoms. The nonexistent army even had an illustrious commander, General George Patton, during one of his periods of disgrace...