Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sentences ranging from three years to life. 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...
...known simply as Marty to his Capitol Hill friends, a name that just would not fit his famous father, the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Senate Page Martin Luther King III, 16, has been spending his days running errands in the upper chamber and his evenings running the base paths as a softball player on the teams of Georgia Congressman Andrew Young and Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. At times, it seems, the action is brisker on the mound than on the Hill. "It's been a great learning experience," says King diplomatically. "But after a while, when...
...Rev. 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...
...fair trial in the 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...
Just who began the 1974 Philadelphia revolution is unclear. One important influence was the Rev. Edward G. Harris, co-dean of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass., who issued an impassioned call in June for the immediate ordination of women. Another major backer, who delivered the sermon at the ordination, was Harvard Professor Charles V. Willie, a layman and a black who is vice president of the church's House of Deputies...