Word: clergymen
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...detainees were freed in a few hours and the clergymen said they would continue protests regardless of the consequences. Their petition referred to an order last Wednesday prohiting political activity by 18 major anti-apartheid organizations...
...said an unapologetic New York State health commissioner David Axelrod last week after approving a New York City plan to fight AIDS by providing drug addicts with sterile needles. The controversial program, which could begin as early as this spring, has sparked vehement protests from law-enforcement agents, clergymen and politicians. Says the Rev. Calvin Butts of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem: "To distribute needles is to cooperate with evil. It is a step to legitimatizing heroin...
...wine list and tenderloin with bearnaise sauce but holds mashed potatoes and meat loaf in contempt. American reporters discuss stories that straddle two worlds: a log-sawing contest in Brooklin, Me., and drug-awareness week at nearby Bucksport High. These days lawyers and real estate agents seem to outnumber clergymen and clam diggers. Even the lilting Down East accent, once spoken as if it were passing over a dip on a backwoods road, is losing its curls...
...contras, meanwhile, were feeling the heat for three alleged kidnapings. Two Nicaraguan clergymen, released last week after an eleven-day captivity, charged that the rebels had threatened to kill them. Witness for Peace, a U.S. human rights group, charged that a volunteer, Paul Fisher, had been abducted. Rebel Spokeswoman Marta Sacasa said that all three men had been detained for their own protection and promised that Fisher would be released "as soon as there are secure circumstances...
...several progressive clergymen who joined this summer's attack on the government is the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 34, an energetic priest with a solid constituency among the hundreds of thousands of discarded people who live in the slums of Port-au-Prince. He is known as the priest of the poor, and visitors walking through the hallways of the church compound where he works are likely to stumble over abandoned children who use the place as a sort of unofficial clubhouse, sleeping and playing ferocious games of cards and marbles...