Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four years. That was another attempt to portray Reagan as a man of compassion, but one who believes the poor should be helped as much as possible by voluntary charity rather than Government benefits. At week's end the President hosted a White House lunch for 75 black clergymen, and again plugged voluntarism and assailed the idea that the interests of the poor should be entrusted to "paid bureaucrats." Strangely, he did not even mention the words civil rights...
...achieve improved capabilities to entiance deterrence and U.S. capabilities to prevail should deterrence fail. "This is a difficult principle to live by--it requires constant restatement and re-justification by America's leadership. Hence the recent reply of New York's Cardinal Cooke to pro-disarmament Catholic clergymen: "A policy of deterrence may be morally tolerated if a nation is sincerely trying to come up with a rational alternative...
Tehran's rapprochement with Moscow has enraged many of Iran's right-wing clergymen, who now regard the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini as an opportunist and an apostate. Though the rightists have thus far lost the battle to keep the Islamic revolution uncontaminated by Communist support, they have gathered strength in the power struggle over who will succeed Khomeini. Government leaders have announced that preparations are being made for the selection of a supreme council of experts, which will consist of three to five theologians who will take over when Khomeini dies or he becomes too sick to rule...
Members of the Northampton Committee on El Salvador, the Western Massachusetts Latin American Solidarity Committee and representative of UMass's Radical Student Union the People's Gay Alliance and Students Against Militarism, along with clergymen and businessmen, were at the sot-in the Massachusetts, Daily Collegian, UMass's campus newspaper reported last week...
...years old. The two repressive measures have become part of the grim pattern of national life. Over the years, banning and detention have been used to silence more than 1,500 critics of the regime, including 350 people seized during the Soweto riots in 1976 and scores of journalists, clergymen and antiapartheid leaders following the death in custody of Stephen Biko...