Word: priestes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting in protest against the killing of a 13-year-old neighborhood boy by a British soldier's plastic bullet, Williams and Corrigan were shouted down, pummeled by an angry mob and driven to seek sanctuary in a nearby church. While the terrified women were comforted by a priest in the Holy Trinity sacristy, youths smashed their cars...
Fernandes, who once studied to be a Roman Catholic priest, is a quixotic but skillful labor organizer. He first acquired a national reputation in 1967, when he unexpectedly defeated a strongman of the ever ruling Congress Party, S.K. Patil, for the parliamentary seat for South...
...Simeon. For Patricia Hearst, 22, the foreseeable future will be spent in a California prison cell. Convicted last March of armed robbery and of using a firearm to commit a felony, Patty came to U.S. district court in San Francisco last week for sentencing. With her counselor Episcopal Priest Edward John Dumke seated behind her, along with Father Randolph Hearst, owner-publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, and Mother Catherine, the 90-lb. heiress stood tight-lipped as Judge William Orrick Jr. sentenced her to seven years, minus 371 days for time already served. "Violence is unacceptable in our society...
During the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, a local Catholic priest received a phone call from a Boston clergyman asking what steps the church was taking to cool the hostilities. The answer did not completely satisfy the Bostonian. Last fall the Little Rock priest dialed his Yankee colleague: "I'm returning your call," he said. The Bostonian hung...
Iron Hand. Atlanta Therapist Jean Harsch cites Rosalynn Carter and Betty Talmadge as examples of strong women who can appear pretty and helpless. "The rest of the country," she says, "makes the mistake of seeing those as ingrained ways of being rather than learned skills." One Episcopal priest who has spent eight years in the South says he has never seen so many "brutally powerful women. They will say, 'Oh, don't say damn or I'll faint' and then castrate the man they're with...