Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington may be far away, but major changes in U.S. foreign policy are not necessarily so distant. So rally on Saturday April 25th. If you can, stay for the Interfaith Worship Service and the National Student Meeting on Sunday. Participate in nonviolent civil disobedience at the CIA headquarters on Monday. Lobby your congressman. Your bus ticket can take the whole country a long...
Last year Colgate-Palmolive's new brand came to the attention of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a Manhattan group that works with churches. When it protested to Colgate-Palmolive about Darkie, the firm did nothing to change the product for several months, contending that the label "was not offensive to Asians." But after continued pressure, the company finally promised "to eliminate any offensive implications." Now Colgate-Palmolive is testing revised package designs, including one using a young, modern, well-dressed black. Among the new names under consideration are Hawley and Darbie...
...good friend and hygiene guru Rutger Fury had taken part in an impromptu interfaith cooperative hijacking, being as we were in need of a quick ride to Teheran. We figured that Iran would be the best place from which to cover the evolving arms scandal...
Reaction to the new pullouts from U.S. opponents of apartheid was mixed. Timothy Smith, head of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, an umbrella organization representing more than 200 Roman Catholic and Protestant groups, called the moves a "significant victory for antiapartheid forces" because they send a message to other U.S. corporations that "it is bad business to do business with South Africa." Leon Sullivan termed the new withdrawals a "big first step toward achieving the goal of ending apartheid"; he now believes that a "total embargo" will be necessary if racial segregation is not dismantled by next June. Other...
...students are members of the Harvard Ecumenical Society, which is sponsored by the Catholic Center and the Hillel to "encourage interfaith dialogue," said John E. MacInnis, a chaplain at the Catholic Center...