Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coffin said that Reagan was guilty of pride in his foreign policy, which allowed him to ignore the opinions of "every other government," in its relations with Nicaragua...
Lambasting America's use of charity and religion as a substitute for social justice, Reverend William Sloan Coffin, senior minister of Riverside Church in New York, termed America, "long on charity, short on justice," and questioned the church's role in society...
...Churches have an interest in unjust social structure, which allows us to pour our hearts out," Coffin said, in a thirty-five minute talk, during which he broke into imitations of Soviet leader Gorbachev and President Reagan...
Before an audience of 100, Coffin attacked the neglect of "subsistence rights"--to housing, food, and education-in America's emphasis on freedoms-to speech, assembly, and the like...
...building across the far-flung archipelago. Tentatively but with increasing signs of determination, Aquino supporters were starting to take their frustrations into the streets. Wav- ing clenched fists and chanting "Fight! Fight!," thousands of Filipinos marched in a 13-mile procession through the capital. They escorted the flag-draped coffin of Evelio Javier, 43, a regional Aquino campaign chairman who had been brutally gunned down days earlier in the province of Antique. Though far smaller in scale, the Javier funeral demonstration reminded many Filipinos of the huge outpourings of grief that followed the 1983 assassination of Aquino's husband Benigno...