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...young blacks were looking up; they were coming out of the shadow of segregation; they were saying, 'I am somebody,' " recalls the Rev. Thomas Kilgore, who heads a predominantly black group of 218 activist clergymen in Los Angeles. "Now they don't feel that way. The black community does not have the kind of hope it had then...
...civilian targets. Shortly after the embassy takeover last November, he headed for Tehran as President Carter's negotiator, but turned back when Khomeini refused to receive him. Among others who accompanied him last week were Nobel Laureate George Wald of Harvard, Civil Rights Activist Paul Washington, and Clergymen John Walsh and Charles Kimball, who had visited the hostages in December. Their purpose, according to Wald: to convince the Iranians that the hostage crisis "has become a liability for them...
Such industriousness has earned the Cubans considerable respect, but with a new wave of 5,000 to 6,000 immigrants expected, there is a fear that the local economy can no longer absorb them. North Jersey Congressmen, mayors, clergymen and community leaders met last week to form a committee to request federal aid for the resettlement. Says Union City Mayor William V. Musto: "There's no comparison between the economy...
Drinan was one of only two Roman Catholic clergymen ever to serve as voting members of Congress. The other, liberal Democrat Robert J. Cornell, 61, a Norbertine priest from West De Pere, Wis., also dropped out of politics last week in response to the Pope's order. He had been elected to the House in 1974 and 1976, and was preparing a campaign to win his old seat back. But then the apostolic delegate in Washington, who represents the Pontiff the U.S., informed Cornell's superior that the Wisconsin priest also was subject to the decision against Drinan...
Given Khomeini's hint, the U.N. initiative might be revived, but it remained unclear what visitors the militants would permit. They allowed three American clergymen to hold Easter services for some of the hostages, but they feared that emotional reunions between the hostages and their families might furnish propaganda for the U.S. At week's end the Iranian government was trying to make arrangements for visits by the International Red Cross...