Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clearing in the wooded hills north of Budapest, overlooking the Danube. In this Sermon on the Mount setting, wizened farmers in stiff Sunday black mingled with villagers wearing gaily embroidered costumes and city youths in Western jeans and printed T shirts. The crowd had reached 10,000 when the Rev. Billy Graham, visibly moved at the reception, made his way to the rostrum last week to begin his first Soviet-bloc preaching tour in three decades of gospel globetrotting...
...Smith in charge, and 2) the war will go on if leaders of the militant Patriotic Front are excluded from the transition process. Another, and more immediate problem is whether any moderate black leaders will agree to discuss Smith's plan. Already both Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, the most important nationalist leaders inside the country, have said that they will refuse to join the "broader based" Cabinet that Smith has proposed as a first step...
Chicago is on the verge of a racial explosion," declares the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose Operation PUSH is pushing for better education. "Busing means the destruction of our neighborhoods, and we're going to fight for our survival," replies Housewife Connie Schaefer, president of the Bogan community council, which represents the largely blue-collar Bogan-Marquette Park areas, one of the last all-white enclaves on Chicago's Southwest Side...
...nice if someone told us what we are voting for?" Aiming to head off an imposed U.S.-British settlement, Smith called the surprise election in July, hoping that a new mandate would enable him to push through some kind of compromise with either of two "accepted" black leaders: the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole or Bishop Abel Muzorewa...
More black leaders are beginning to make the point that in spite of the continuing racism that is still a barrier to opportunities, the underclass must help itself out of its morass. In his pulpit style, Chicago's the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of the Operation PUSH self-help group, says: "It is bad to be in the slum, but it is worse when the slum is in you. The spiritual slum is the ultimate tragedy. The victimizer is responsible for us being down, but the victim is responsible for us getting up." Jackson has called for neighborhood volunteers...