Word: revs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rev. Allan Boesak, president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, appeared optimistic about de Klerk's election. "At last we have someone who is more pragmatic than ideological," he said...
...just a little more than a year ago when the Duke marched into the Democratic Convention in Atlanta as a conquering hero. He had just successfully walked a political tightrope, garnering the support of the liberal Rev. Jesse L. Jackson only days after choosing the conservative Sen. Lloyd Bensten (D-Tex.) as his running mate...
...most prominent antiapartheid leaders, the Rev. Frank Chikane, along with Mandela's wife Winnie, quickly called a press conference to dismiss the talks in Cape Town as a "nonevent," an act of "political mischief" staged by Mandela's jailers. In Lusaka, Joe Modise, commander of Spear of the Nation, the guerrilla wing of the A.N.C. that Mandela helped create in 1961, insisted that "only the armed struggle will bring the Boers to negotiations...
...blacks. But the Cardinal felt compelled to take drastic action, in part because of Detroit's ruinous population decline. The city's churches, however, are also dying because they have failed to enlist any significant numbers of blacks when white ethnics began moving out of their neighborhoods. Says the Rev. Norman Thomas, a white priest who opposes the closings: "The church has not done an adequate job of being a church in the city, and that includes attracting blacks...
...prophesied in Scripture, but the end has come. Ten years after the $ Rev. Jerry Falwell zoomed into the right lane of national politics, the Moral Majority is being shut down. Come August, the organization, whose gospel blended Fundamentalist theology and ultra-conservative politics, will close its Washington office. Falwell will devote himself to two Lynchburg, Va., enterprises, the Thomas Road Baptist Church and Liberty University. Ironically, Falwell made the announcement in a city that symbolizes the sins the Moral Majority inveighed against: Las Vegas...