Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be a great pity if the public discussion of financial matters relating to the Pope's visit were to distract us from this unique opportunity," the Rev. William Helmick, the archdiocese's coordinator for the Papal visit, said yesterday...
...past two years, Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church has stirred more controversy in the maritime town than anyone there can recall. "You'll have to strap marks on your ass before I give you a permit...you're not welcome here," Mayor Leo Alper told two church representatives when they applied for a harbor development permit in 1978. And since they opened shop in Gloucester four years ago, the world has started to watch. Members of Moon's church have gradually established a profitable fish processing plant there in addition to their even more lucrative operations in Kodiak...
...hour-long ecumenical service in Westminster Abbey was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Donald Coggan. He eulogized Lord Mountbatten for his "high enthusiasm and liberality of spirit, his integrity and flair for leadership, his dedication to the cause of freedom and justice ... He was so rare a person." After the buglers had sounded the last post and reveille, the coffin was taken to Waterloo Station for the final journey to Romsey, 87 miles southwest of London. There, in accordance with his wishes, Mountbatten was buried on the grounds of a 12th century abbey, his body facing...
...compromise with the bishop's regime. While attempting to split his external enemies, the Prime Minister has dealt sternly with his political opponents inside the country. In July, Zimbabwe Rhodesian soldiers shot down at least 183 members of the "private army" of Muzorewa's rival, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, who finished second to Muzorewa in last April's "majority rule" election. Faced with guerrilla attacks on the outskirts of his capital and the continued exodus of whites, who are fleeing at the rate of 1,000 a month, the bishop explained that "ruthless" action was required. Said...
...schools relied heavily on textbooks because of a shortage of trained teachers. The dependence was so marked that textbook use in Europe became known as "the American system." The authors, often clergymen, had no problem defining the national identity: it was white, Protestant and suspicious of foreigners. The Rev. Jedidiah Morse, for example, a friend of Dictionary Compiler Noah Webster's and the author of America's first geography textbook, described the Spanish as "naturally weak and effeminate...