Word: revs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Magdalene, a Reagan supporter in 1984, says she doesn't know who she'll back come November. But if the Democrats back the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, she says she'll vote Republican because, "I still prefer a white President...We need a white to be the leader of our country...
...Rev. Jesse L. Jackson isn't the only preacher eager to capture some of the media spotlight. The Rev. Al Sharpton is in Atlanta to draw attention to the plight of Tawana Brawley, the 16 year-old New York girl who says she was kidnapped and raped by six white men in a racial attack...
...Washington Post, the 125,000-member Planetary Society urged support for a manned mission. The ad listed the names of a glittering array of such prominent Americans as Walter Cronkite, Jimmy Carter, Utah Senator Jake Garn, Nobel Laureate Physicist Hans Bethe and Notre Dame's former president, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. All of them have signed the Society's "Mars Declaration," which advocates a U.S. space program that would lead to the human exploration of Mars...
...bishops readily passed the bill after endorsement by Presiding Bishop Edmond Browning, who was leading his first church convention, but it was nearly killed by priests and laity in the separate House of Deputies. Nedi Moore, a woman priest from Salinas, Calif., termed the measure "insulting," and the Rev. James Fisher of Easton, Md., objected to the idea that "you can be a bishop here but not a bishop there...
Texans should be happy--anyway it goes, we win. I'm a Texan, too, y'all. But for Black Texans, it may not be so clear cut. Will Blacks still support Dukakis and Bentsen even though the Rev. Jesse Jackson isn't on the ticket? Here's what Black Texans...