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...been pointing for this evangelical undertaking since 1959, when he made his first trip to the U.S.S.R. During a quick visit to Moscow's huge Lenin Stadium, he recalls, "I bowed my head and prayed that God would one day open the door and let me preach the Gospel in Russia." In more recent years he has preached in Hungary, Poland, East Germany and Czechoslovakia, but always with a Soviet mission in mind. Then in 1982 he attended a Moscow peace conference and stirred one of the biggest flaps of lis career. He made remarks to reporters that downplayed...
ACORN's Tent City was impressive; right by the major highway, Republican delegates coming in from the airport couldn't fail to notice the gospel tents, huge "Reagan-buster" signs, and people milling about from the ice-machines to the shade and back. The heat was so bad, that some of the older people from other parts of the country, not used to Texas heat, had medical problems. But there were not many of them, and the others who were well continued to chant; "We're Fired Up, We're Going to Dump the Chump...
After fighting with the city for a campsite, unsure of the direction the racial sparring would take, ACORN went ahead with plans to set up the Tent City, First, two massive gospel revival tents went up at the corner of the newly formed "Martin Luther King" and John J. Lewis streets. The Saturday afternoon before the Republicans came into town, ACORN held its own national convention...
...city of Xian. Says the businessman: "All we can do is pray and weep for them." A Protestant writes a letter telling of public notices posted in Fuyang, west of Shanghai, ordering Christians not to share their faith beyond that city or to listen to short-wave Gospel broadcasts. A woman evangelist, one of 130 house-church leaders from Henan province who are in hiding, tells a foreign visitor that police hung her father by his hands and beat him in an attempt to find out her whereabouts...
Even Cuomo, who has become a party guru with his gospel of gee-whiz goodness, has no record to run on. His year and a half in Albany has been a litany of failure, and his obsession with the 21-year-old minimum drinking age as the family issue is too silly to warrant any serious discussion...