Word: documental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Committee investigators have received documents from FBI files showing that the bureau unaccountably, never followed up an intriguing story about King's death told to an agent by an informant in 1973. The informant reported that Russell G. Byers, 46, then an auto parts dealer in St. Louis, had told him that two Missourians-Stockbroker John R. Kauffmann and Patent Attorney John H. Sutherland-had offered him $50,000 in 1967 to arrange for King's assassination. Byers said that he turned down the offer. Subsequently, the New York Times obtained another FBI document, quoting Byers as saying...
...frail and sickly that he had to get much of his education-including some of his seminary training-at home. But he learned quickly: in 1920, not yet 23, he was ordained a priest in Brescia Cathedral. Dispatched to Rome for graduate work, he became a Minutante-document writer in the Vatican's Secretariat of State. He also served as a Chaplain to students at the University of Rome, among whom he fought the tide of Mussolini's Fascism, and his work with them won him the title of Monsignor...
...Cardinals agreed. They elected him on the fifth ballot. The day after his election, Paul announced on television that the Vatican Council would continue, and he guided it through three more sessions. His interventions were rare but usually decisive. During the fourth session, in 1965, when the critical document on religious liberty seemed threatened by a filibuster of Conservative Prelates, Paul forced a vote. The declaration passed overwhelmingly, 1,997 to 224, affirming to the world that the Catholic Church respected the rights of conscience of other believers...
...Peoples), the strongest and most moving of his seven encyclicals, he wrote in 1967 that the ownership of property "does not constitute for anyone an absolute and unconditional right. No one is justified in keeping for his exclusive use what he does not need when others lack necessities." The document warned prophetically that rich nations must share their wealth with poor ones or risk "the judgment of God and wrath of the poor...
...exhortations and decrees filled more than 1,000 printed pages. But he issued only one more encyclical after Populorum progressio. It was Humanae vitae (On Human Life) in the summer of 1968, and it aroused widespread criticism for its total rejection of artificial birth control. Paul agonized over the document, but he chose to ignore the advice of a special papal birth control commission that had advised him to accept certain methods of contraception...