Word: clergymen
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...unusually somber Easter, and many a churchgoer could not forget that half a world away, in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, 50 Americans had begun their sixth month of cruel captivity. They, too, had been promised permission to attend Easter services, to be conducted by three Christian clergymen from the U.S. The clergymen flew from New York City's Kennedy Airport, bearing what one of them, Catholic Priest Darrell Rupiper of Omaha, said would be a message of "reconciliation between America and Iran...
...Salvador to attend the funeral, carried Romero's coffin out of harm's way into the cathedral, where it was sealed into a crypt in the east nave. The crowd huddled inside the church for more than an hour, well after the shooting stopped. Then clergymen, mothers with infants and terrified nuns emerged slowly in single file, with their hands on their heads as a precautionary signal to possible snipers...
...either cover or contracts. CIA Director Stansfield Turner stirred renewed controversy by admitting in testimony before a Senate committee that on three occasions he had already agreed to waive the CIA's rule against contracts with missionaries. There can be "unique circumstances," Turner said, in which clergymen are "the only means available" to operate "in a situation of the highest urgency and national importance...
Most religious organizations oppose both Admiral Turner's view and the proposed Senate bill, since it does not entirely forbid use of clergymen. Noting that in many Third World nations missionaries "are already seen as agents of imperialism," the Rev. Dean Kelley, the religious-liberty director of the National Council of Churches, is afraid that "the whole profession can be tainted if it is known that they can be a front for intelligence agencies...
...bill would allow the CIA to tap the phones and search the premises of U.S. citizens or corporations in foreign countries, but only if the agency first obtained warrants from a special court. The CIA would be permitted to use journalists, clergymen or academics as part-time agents or informers overseas, a practice that is now forbidden by the agency's own rules. Only U.S. citizens or resident aliens could look at the CIA's nonsensitive files on them; at present, under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA is required to show some files to almost...