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Protestant churches have been equally outspoken. The National Council of Churches, which represents 40 million Protestants, supports a bilateral nuclear freeze. The 1.6 million-member American Baptist Churches declared in December that "the presence of nuclear weapons and the willingness to use them is a direct affront to our Christian beliefs and commitments." Even members of the evangelical movement, which has been generally noted for its political conservatism, have raised their voices against the arms buildup. Says the Rev. Kim Crutchfield of the Chapel Hill Harvester Church, a Pentecostal church in Atlanta: "We are not talking about Russians or Chinese...
...Social Democrat and staunch supporter of Swedish opposition leader Olaf Palme. Oberg is quite outspoken on international affairs and politics in general. He believes the Reagan Administration's policies are counter-productive and points to Central America as an example. In El Salvador and Nicaragua. Oberg claims, the U.S. is making the same type of mistakes it did in Vietnam. While trying to limit the influence of the Soviet Union in these countries, the U.S., with its present actions, is accomplishing the opposite...
...message of my films these past 25 years has been the need to prevent [Poland] from falling into the state it has found itself." The message of his new movie could be even stronger. To be called Danton, it is based on the life of the fiery, outspoken French revolutionary champion of democratic rule...
...fight and roll their eyes throughout, as if the movie were a 90-minute toothpaste commercial ("Oh, Mom, do we hafta go to bed?"). Dana Hill, though, makes the oldest sister the most moving character in the film. Her tough, intense performance creates a girl almost too savvy and outspoken for a real 13-year-old, yet always believable. Recast from her point of view, the film could have added something truly new to the present glut of divorce movies. But instead we get more of the familialy familiar, watching from an adult's-eye view as both the husband...
...years they were rivals. But for the 24 months since the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party (ZANU-P.F.) of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe came to power in 1980, he and Joshua Nkomo, 64, the portly, outspoken head of the opposition Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), have coexisted uneasily. Last week their shaky truce was shattered. Nkomo was unceremoniously stripped of his rank as Minister Without Portfolio in the Mugabe government, a post he was demoted to a year after Nkomo's party won 20 parliamentary seats in the 1980 elections (vs. 57 for Mugabe...