Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more as a well-known public figure than as a bishop per se. "He hasn't shown us his hand yet on local issues." He would like to see Law draw up a plan for the future of the archdiocese, dealing with issues of organization and diminishing numbers of clergymen within the Church...
...black leaders at the South African embassy in Washington. Since then the demonstrations have spread to eight cities and are expected to attract larger rallies at planned events this week. They have had a revivalist, 1960s civil rights tone, as black activists joined white liberal politicians, labor leaders and clergymen in crossing police lines to be arrested. By week's end 31 demonstrators, selected for their symbolic value, had been arrested in the daily rallies outside the embassy...
...Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs, explain the Administration's policy of "constructive engagement." Crocker complained that the policy, largely his creation, has been misunderstood. "It is not an embracing of any status quo," he said, adding that the U.S. has supported those black union leaders, students, clergymen and businesses seeking reforms in South Africa. The Administration contends that economic sanctions have rarely proved effective and could not be expected to have a great influence on such an embedded practice as apartheid. Jimmy Carter's more confrontational approach had also made little difference, they argue, so working...
...never would the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 have passed Congress unless clergymen of all faiths had joined to press it through...
...wormy place in the seven satiric novels of A.N. Wilson. The deadly sins flourish there, as do those lapses of character and taste that can turn a serious life into a pathetic farce. At 34, this precociously wise and productive British writer has pierced the intimidating exteriors of physicians, clergymen and scholars. Scandal takes on politicians, journalists, prostitutes, thugs, spies, not-so-innocent bystanders and that quaint ideal, the dutiful wife of a public figure...