Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even if it was 50 people on each side, I'm not sure I'd pick either man," admitted ABC's Ted Koppel. Even so, the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Jerry Falwell starred on Nightline last week, locking horns over the subject of U.S. policy in South Africa. Falwell, founder of Moral Majority, argued that withdrawing U.S. investments from South Africa in an effort to coerce the country into abandoning apartheid would do more harm than good. Said he: "We can cut out the cancer without killing the patient." Jackson, head of Operation Push, was less sanguine. "With increased investment...
...World War II. Vowing to proceed with the demonstration, Boesak insisted last week, "They will try to frighten us with the possibility of unleashing the enormous force of the government and the violence we have seen before. Yet the march is going ahead." On Tuesday afternoon Boesak, a founder of the U.D.F. and a member of the "colored" community (the official term for South Africans of mixed race), was arrested at a roadblock near his home outside Cape Town and was flown to a prison in Pretoria...
...addition to filling his roles at the Thomas Road Church, at the university and on TV, Falwell is the founder of Moral Majority, an organization of conservative Americans who lobby for such causes as school prayer and antiabortion legislation. This national political movement engenders passionate enthusiasm among its followers and a large measure of trepidation among many opponents...
RELEASED. Sun Myung Moon, 65, Korean-born founder and spiritual leader of the Unification Church; after serving 13 months of an 18-month sentence for his 1982 conviction on charges of income tax evasion, the last six weeks of which he spent in an inmate rehabilitation center; in Brooklyn. At a Washington dinner in his honor last week, Moon described his prison term as providing "a moving experience with God. I was not there because of my personal actions or mistakes, yet I did not brood with resentment or hatred...
...turned around, with metro areas growing faster than non-metro areas. But one aspect of the 1970s trend endures. "People are moving to smaller, less crowded communities," says Peter Morrison of the Rand Corp.'s population research center, "particularly those with a population under a quartermillion." Notes Bryant Robey, founder of American Demographics: "America's past has been one of steady centralization; its future is likely to be one of steady population deconcentration...