Word: meyerson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks at a Miami Beach hotel, round-trip air fare included, can cost as little as $470. One British tour firm, Intasun, alone has reserved 6,000 beds a night in 21 Florida hotels for this summer. "We love them, we love them," gushes Miami Beach Mayor Murray Meyerson...
Within the church, government control is pervasive. The appointment of every cleric, from Patriarch Pimen on down, must be cleared by the Council for Religious Affairs, a government agency that supervises all religious matters. Under these circumstances, contends Father Michael Meyerson-Aksyonov, a convert to Orthodoxy who tried unsuccessfully to enter a Soviet seminary and is an émigré now living in the U.S., "the priest is not the spiritual or moral leader of the community. He is a performer of rites and nothing more...
...What is amazing," notes Father Meyerson-Aksyonov, "is not that the church leadership is corrupt but that it is not so corrupt." In a possible sign of new independence, the Soviet delegates to the W.C.C. Executive Committee did not register opposition to a resolution expressing "serious concern" over the Soviet "military action" in Afghanistan, and other world conflicts...