Word: clergymen
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...affronts to the militantly atheist ideology of Communism have been frequent occurrences since Ceauşescu came to power in 1965. High-ranking prelates are now elected to the Rumanian National Assembly. Some members of the Rumanian Communist Party's Central Committee regularly attend Easter services in Bucharest. Clergymen of every denomination receive part of their salaries from the state...
...large. Masters had built a rather bizarre device: a plastic dildo connected to a camera, which could photograph the interior of the vagina. Partly because of this apparatus, the authors were accused of dehumanizing sex and concentrating on technique at the expense of romance and morality. Psychiatrists and clergymen attacked the project as an invasion of privacy. Masters and Johnson were rebuked for writing a book about sex without once using the word love. The authors have chosen not to defend their books, but Masters does have a comment about this particular accusation. "Can you imagine that [as a criticism...
...than other forms of assistance permitted by the court, including the use of state funds to pay for the busing of parochial school pupils and some of their textbooks. If the Government did tax churches, Burger argued, it would become even more involved in religion as tax collectors and clergymen haggled over such matters as "tax valuation of church property, tax liens, tax foreclosures, and the direct confrontations and conflicts that follow in the train of those legal processes...
...Massachusetts Lawyers Guild has agreed to defend the group, and the Medical Committee on Human Rights will provide medics. Approximately 15 to 20 Boston-area clergymen and professors will act as legal and official witnesses...
...Gulf Oil Corp. held its meeting, police arrested seven persons during sidewalk disturbances. Inside the meeting hall, 50 proxy-bearing dissidents jeered, booed and shouted demands that Gulf end its defense contracts and stop doing business in Portugal's African colony of Angola. They were supported by several clergymen and professors. Defending Gulf's policies, Chairman E.D. ("Del") Brockett noted that the company supplies less than 4% of all fuel purchased by the Defense Department, and earns a lower margin of profit on it than on civilian sales. "Many derogatory public statements are being made about Gulf," said...