Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer of 1974 the Cardinal appointed a committee, chaired by Rev. John P. Boles, to investigate and assess the needs of the Harvard-Radcliffe community. However, the committee's assessment did not include input from the H-R community, and so when Griffin, Kelley and Bohn received notice of their dismissal notice, which they claim contained no explanation for the firing, the board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Center Inc. at St. Paul's Church immediately voiced its objections to the Cardinal...
...board expressed its "strongest displeasure with the abrupt firing" as well as an objection to the method of the dismissal, which it said was "in violation of the minimal standards of due process," thus undermining "confidence in ecclestiastical administration." The entire matter was further exasperated by the replacement of Rev. Msgr. Edward G. Murray as the pastor of St. Paul's with Fr. Boles, the chairman of the investigating committee...
...Rev.) Frank L. Faust Metairie...
...employed almost as routine practice by both police and security forces." The methods include beatings, electric shock by electrodes and cattle prods, suspension in barrels of water, threats of castration. Preventive detention of black activists has long been commonplace (three leaders-Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole-together spent 30 years in jail). At least 700 political prisoners have been held for ten years or longer, said Amnesty...
...What urban education needs is not more money but more parents willing to give their children care, motivation and chastisement-the will to learn." The speaker is the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a former lieutenant of Martin Luther King, oratorical spellbinder and director of Chicago-based Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), a community development organization founded to help the urban poor. Jackson has been preaching a new gospel of self-discipline to replace self-pity among black high school youths. "We keep saying that Johnny doesn't read because he's deprived, hungry and discriminated against," says...