Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rev. Leon H. Sullivan, author of a set of guidelines for the activities of United States corporations in South Africa, has appointed Paul N. Ylvisaker, dean of the Graduate School of Education, to a council which will establish a group to monitor the 107 corporations that have endorsed the Sullivan Principles...
...Rev. Augustus Roman, another member of the council, said last week he is hopeful its "efforts will aid in the dissolution of apartheid...
...since hundreds of Japanese civilians leaped to their deaths off the cliffs of Saipan as American forces approached the Pacific island in World War II had there been a comparable act of collective self-destruction. The followers of the Rev. Jim Jones, 47, a once respected Indianaborn humanitarian who degenerated into egomania and paranoia, had first ambushed a party of visiting Americans, killing California Congressman Leo Ryan, 53, three newsmen and one defector from their heavily guarded colony at Jonestown. Then, exhorted by their leader, intimidated by armed guards and lulled with sedatives and painkillers, parents and nurses used syringes...
...lack of a charismatic leader, and Marceline was homesick, so Jones decided to return. He affiliated with the Disciples of Christ, a 1.3 million-member denomination, and in 1964 was ordained a minister by that group. But he still considered Indianapolis narrow and racist. A good friend, the Rev. Ross Case, also of the Disciples of Christ, had moved from Indiana to California, and Jones decided to follow him. He eventually brought more than 100 supporters to Redwood Valley in Mendocino County, north of San Francisco. Robert Kauffman, a former bank executive from nearby Ukiah, recalls that Marceline Jones walked...
Said his old associate the Rev. Case: "Jim stopped calling himself the reincarnation of Jesus and started calling himself...