Word: pastorate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last week alone, Park's military courts sentenced 62 opponents of the regime to stiff prison terms for plotting to overthrow the government. Among them: former President Yun Po Sun, 76, Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Tji Hak Soun, 53, and the Rev. Park Hyung Kyoo, 51, deeply respected pastor of Seoul's Cheil Presbyterian Church. All accepted the summary sentences with moving dignity. Said Yun: "I ask you one question. Is it a crime to help democracy...
...Billy Graham, who used to appear at the White House frequently, admitted the that he latest had been "disappointed" by the latest transcripts but urged mercy: "The President and his family have undergone two years of suffering that were worse than prison." The Rev. John Huffman Jr., former pastor of the Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church, was stunned. Last year, Huff man recalled, he and Nixon had talked about Watergate, and the President had given "his absolute, total assurance that he was not involved in the cover-up and that he was doing everything he could to expose the situation...
...Senate." Jannuzi still believes, as he has from the beginning, that Nixon was destroyed by his enemies. "What I would like to know," said Sahli, "is where the impeachment thing started. I have the feeling that somebody put some money behind it." The Rev. George Carson, 52, pastor of the Trinity United Presbyterian Church, said that some of his parishioners were "greatly sorrowed." The minister himself is ambivalent: "In many ways the man has been misjudged, but he did make some errors...
...Divinity School and a chaplain trainee at Topeka State Hospital in Kansas, grew up as a Southern Baptist and became an Episcopalian just five years ago. Nancy Hatch Wittig, 28, who is slated to take up duties at a Morristown, N.J., parish this month, is married to a Methodist pastor...
Salvatore Polizzi, 43. No mere pulpit priest, the associate pastor of St. Ambrose Roman Catholic Church in St. Louis spends most of his time on the streets of the Hill, the city's Italian district. Raised in St. Louis, Polizzi saw the beginnings of decay in the neighborhood and in 1964 formed Hill 2000-"because we plan on the Hill's being right here in the year 2000." Since then the neighborhood improvement organization has planted trees, renovated dozens of old homes to be sold cut-rate to young families, and run a popular educational summer youth program...