Word: gatherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill, an amendment to a $1 billion education package, makes it unlawful for public high schools to bar student gatherings for "religious," "philosophical" or "political" meetings outside class hours. Several safeguards are designed to preserve the line between church and state. Meetings must be voluntary and student initiated. Proponents argue that the law would give students who wish to meet for religious purposes the same rights as students who gather for other reasons. Says Californian John Stoos, a regional director of the American Life Lobby: "It's surprising that we had to grovel for the same rights already given...
Jackson's return visit to Havana on Thursday to gather the prisoners was even more festive than his first stop there...
...bees buzzed among the blue petunias. The tourists gawked through the iron fence at the far end of the South Lawn. Warmth and tranquillity ruled. Reagan never shouted or scowled. With amiable demeanor and a gesture of good will, he was able to gather a varied political bouquet. Robert Strauss, former Democratic national chairman, was almost silent. House Democratic Majority Whip Tom Foley looked content. The gallant, crippled Jacob Javits, former Republican Senator from New York, wired his blessings. Judge John Sirica, who sent the Watergate offenders to jail, sat straight and proud. Rabbi Joseph Glaser caught every word...
Every evening in Tijuana, scores of young men gather in an abandoned soccer field, hoping for a chance to cross the border into California. A lone U.S. Border Patrol officer blocks their passage during the day, and so the Mexicans wait for nightfall, when they can slip silently through the shadows. But over the past week they have been looking beyond the Border Patrol at a more threatening obstacle to their hope of finding jobs in the U.S.: the passage by Congress of the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill...
...after a Soviet fighter shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, killing all 269 aboard, the precise circumstances of the tragedy remain a mystery. Last week an anonymous author in the British magazine Defence Attaché accused the U.S. of accidentally provoking the attack by using the airliner to gather intelligence about Soviet air defenses. The plane, the author said, deliberately overflew Soviet territory in order to test Soviet reflexes as the space shuttle Challenger and a U.S. Ferret-D electronic data-gathering satellite watched from above...