Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Riley and Reporter Bill Blanning interviewed many of the principals in the story, including Tammy Faye Bakker. Meanwhile, Atlanta Correspondent B. Russell Leavitt assessed the deep Fundamentalism of the Southern states. Says he: "Driving through kudzu-covered country on a Sunday morning and flipping the radio dial, one can hear the evangelists by the score. They are a constant refrain, a fixture in the landscape...
...resigned as Ronald Reagan's Interior Secretary after offending several minority groups, and was recently fired by a Native American tribe that claimed his work as its lawyer was inept. Evangelist Bailey Smith, while president of the Southern Baptist Convention, gained brief notoriety by declaring, "God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew." Retired Televangelist Rex Humbard was once rebuked by the Securities and Exchange Commission for selling unregistered securities, and was taken to task in the press for spending too much of his ministry's money on his family...
...depicting the trio under the caption "Everyone covering up for everyone." In Ha'aretz, Commentator B. Michael wrote that the spy case, along with the Israeli role in Iranscam, was part of a pattern in which Israeli leaders have taken the position that "We did not know, did not hear, did not see, did not report, and we are not responsible...
...students outraged by apartheid, demand that the South African vice consul exit the room through the front doors to the Science Center lobby, where he will see and hear the opposition of Harvard students to the policies of his government. A speaker from the African National Congress is waiting there to engage the vice consul in debate. To thwart any plan of shielding Mr. Kent-Brown from the free speech of others by spiriting him out the back doors, we are moving down to block these doors peacefully and non-violently. We have no intention of interfering with Mr. Kent...
...Faculty did reconvene the CRR in May, 1985, after 10 years of dormancy, to hear the cases of 25 students involved in two divestment protests--a sit-in at the 17 Quincy St. headquarters of Harvard's governing Corporation and a blockade of South African General Consul Abe S. Hoppenstein in the Lowell House junior common room...