Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour meeting with Arafat was the climax of a four-day "fact-finding tour" of the Middle East by leaders of the late Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.). In the course of what the organization's president, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, called a "divinely mandated" attempt to spread the gospel of nonviolence in the area, the S.C.L.C. leaders picked through the rubble of bombed-out villages in southern Lebanon, prayed for peace with Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis, and urged both Arafat and Israel to accept a moratorium on violent attacks. The civil...
Shortly after Young's firing, Arafat invited Lowery and his principal aides to come to Lebanon. A similar invitation was extended to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, president of People United to Save Humanity (PUSH), who expects to visit the area this week. The wily guerrilla leader clearly expected that the P.L.O. cause would benefit from the S.C.L.C. delegation's support for the creation of a Palestinian homeland and from its visits to villages and refugee camps in southern Lebanon that Israel had destroyed in retaliation for terrorist attacks...
...Israeli counterattacks. Thus the P.L.O. guides who escorted the civil rights leaders on a daylong inspection of camps and towns near the Israeli border repeatedly stressed that the widespread devastation had been wrought with weapons "paid for with U.S. tax dollars." Seeing the American equipment, said the Rev. Walter Fauntroy, an S.C.L.C. official who is also the District of Columbia's nonvoting representative in Congress, was "shocking and disturbing. We just hope that on our return the American people will be moved to limit the instruments of war that will be provided to the nation of Israel...
Phillip Greek, a former church member, told the House Sub-Committee, "In the future, it is the hope of Rev. Moon that the church will become one vast conglomerate of mutually supporting businesses...
When asked if Moon's mission--as interpreted through The Divine Principle (Moon's own addendum to the Bible)--is to unite the world under Christ through Rev. Moon and his teachings, Barry said flatly...