Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rev.) Robert F. Drinan
...worked for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, 54, South Korea's crypto-Messiah, who packed Madison Square Garden to overflowing last week. The happening, complete with numbers by the Korean Folk Ballet, kicked off an eight-city tour that climaxes his drive to build a base in the U.S. just seven years before the Messianic Age is to begin. Moon, through an interpreter, told the Garden-goers in guttural shouts, "The time of the Second Coming of Christ is near, and America is the landing site!" Half the crowd filtered out during the 2½-hour oration...
Some deeply resent that the decision was couched in the language of religion at all. "Whether or not it was explicitly stated between the two men," says the Rev. L. Harold DeWolf, retired dean of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., "this was a political payoff. Raking in so much of this religious stuff?God and all that?makes it even worse than it was." Others concede the sincerity of the President's spiritual motives but challenge the wisdom of the act. "Clearly compassion is something we need more of in public life and the administration of criminal justice," declares...
...territory's capital. For three days they broadcast appeals for support to other frightened whites and to blacks belonging to tribes not represented in Frelimo. "We are not protesting about the principle of independence, but about the instruments by which this independence is to be achieved," said the Rev. Uriah Simango, head of a black nationalist group opposed to Frelimo...
Others named by the Institute as fellows this year are: Rev. Gene Baroni, president of the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs; Thomas A. Dine, staff member of the Special Senate Committee on National Emergencies and Delegated Emergency Powers...