Word: revs
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Despite his voucher system and the remainder of his conservative agenda, DuPont made suprising overtures to another former candidate during the convention. He allied himself with Rev. Jesse Jackson. He even proposed that Republican economic policies are better suited to achieving Jackson's economic goals than Democratic policies...
...most shocking incident occurred on Sunday, Sept. 11: a band of thugs rushed into Port-au-Prince's St. Jean Bosco Church, where the Rev. Jean- Bertrand Aristide, a staunch opponent of the government, was preaching a message of revolutionary faith and defiance. Wielding machetes, revolvers and long, sharpened metal skewers known as fwen, the attackers struck at anyone in their path. As members of the congregation scrambled through doors and windows, several parishioners hustled Aristide out a side door and into an adjacent school. But eleven people were killed in the melee, and more than 80 wounded. Among...
Avril's takeover occurred a week after about 20 men armed with machetes, handguns and steel pikes attacked a church during a Mass being said by the Rev. Jean Bertrand Aristide, a vocal critic of the military government. Thirteen people were killed and 77 wounded. Opposition leaders blamed Namphy's government for the attack and another church burning two days later...
Meanwhile, the Rev. J.W. Canty, an Episcopal priest in New York City, has collected about 200 letters from U.S. citizens, including the Governor of Florida and six U.S. mayors, expressing sympathy for the families of the victims. Canty will travel to Tehran next month to deliver the correspondence...
Sassy magazine may not have Playboy-style naughty photos, but the bold, breezy teen monthly prints plenty of material suggestive enough to draw the wrath of the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority. Under the direction of Editor Jane Pratt, 25, Sassy has published such articles as "The Truth About Boys' ; Bodies" and "How to Kiss." That is too much for the Moral Majority, which in the mid-1980s helped persuade a few retailers, including 7-Eleven stores, to stop selling Playboy and other skin mags. In its Liberty Report newspaper, the Moral Majority urges readers to write to Sassy...