Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cases these days, is yes and no. Germany, in particular, has been a veritable font of Protestant doubt for decades. But last week, deciding it had to draw the line somewhere, West Germany's United Evangelical Lutheran Church, which includes half the nation's Protestants, unfrocked the Rev. Paul Schulz for heresy...
...incredible aftermath to a bizarre event, NBC television broadcast a tape recording of the Rev. Jim Jones' pleading with his followers to "die in dignity" by sipping a cyanide-laced drink. A few of the cultists protested. Some women screamed. Children cried. Armed guards took up positions around the camp to keep anyone from escaping. Other cultists, assembled around their leader's wicker-chair throne in an open hall, applauded as Jones implored in a high-pitched, agitated voice: "Please, for God's sake, let's get on with...
Muzorewa and his two black associates, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Tribal Chief Jeremiah Chirau, need a large voter turnout in order to lend credibility to the election. Along with their white colleague, Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith, architect of the country's "internal settlement," they are anxious to counter the intense resistance to the poll being mounted by more than 10,500 guerrillas of the Patriotic Front...
Secondly, it removes us from the dialogue and substantially diminishes our ability to support responsible efforts by church groups, the Rev. Sullivan, and others to make the companies change their policies. It produces no noticeably long-run economic effect on the companies so that from the point of view of direct economic leverage, the only leverage is the one that comes back to us. I share, and this is a personal view. I share the reservations about the use of economic leverage that were expressed in President Bok's recent open letter to the Harvard community...
Harvard will, I hope, continue to support the efforts of the Rev. Leon Sullivan, whom I think has the best long-run chance of producing substantial changes in companies' operations. He is, I stated earlier, engaged in a monitoring effort which I would very much like to see us support. In the meantime, in the next six weeks we will face 40 resolutions directed at 22 companies. Some of these resolutions are, many of them, in fact, concern the South Africa matter. I have had a number of people express the concern to me that the process of collecting information...