Word: clergymen
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...post-Khomeini Iran depends on the interplay of such political forces as the clergy, the military, and some of the opposition forces. The Left, which is now fragmented, might unite to influence the succession after Khomeini, just as it did in the struggle to overthrow the Shah. Some clergymen who have coexisted with Khomeni without totally or irreversibly identifying with his despotism may also act, particularly if this crisis degenerates into a civil...
...black leaders in Boston and New York City have denounced the clinics as racist. In Chicago, 13 black clergymen are suing to block distribution of contraceptives at the DuSable High School clinic. Says the Rev. Hiram Crawford: "If these clinics are so good for black kids, why don't they put them in white areas? It's a form of genocide. Why do they so readily recommend abortion...
...Joyce Bennett led a communion service attended by the Bishop of Kingston and 40 other clergymen in Church House, London...
...spies. In Moscow on Saturday, a Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman insisted again that Daniloff was a CIA agent who has been spying for years and that proof of this had been furnished to the U.S. Yet in 1977 the CIA adopted a directive forbidding the employment of journalists (or clergymen or academics) as agents or giving journalistic "cover" to real agents. It is still in force. Though no one can say flatly that journalists never act for the CIA, there is no evidence that Daniloff ever did. Moscow, by contrast, regards journalism as an excellent cover; over the years many...
...this galvanizing and polarizing force in presidential politics? Ironically, the description applies equally well to two clergymen who are antipodes in almost every other way: Pat Robertson on the Republican right and Jesse Jackson on the Democratic left. Though both speak in the cadenced tones of the pulpit and address themselves to a constituency that feels embattled and disenfranchised, they differ in race, personality, theology and cultural attitudes. From opposing ends of the political spectrum, each of them is playing a similar role in his party's early maneuvering for 1988 -- and playing it with a gusto that promises...