Word: revs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spanky Duley is spilling his heart to the Rev. Jim Wilkinson, and it sounds like a country song in overdrive. Spanky's wife left him. The girlfriend who followed left him. The woman he's courting is the sister of his ex-wife's new husband. Wilkinson acknowledges Duley's "difficulties" and congratulates him on the upside--that his young daughter continues to live with him. As the men talk, a changing landscape of fancy houses, junkyards, suburbs and woods unscrolls on either side of them. Two football fields away, over Duley's shoulder, the blue jackstaff light marks...
...daily tasks. So by the time 600 arrived for the funeral at Refuge Temple Church of God, on Main Street, it seemed as though God had forgotten this place, a small city with big-city problems. "Violence is let loose like a wild boar on our streets!" thundered the Rev. Courtney Williams, a phalanx of fellow ministers behind him hollering agreement, along with worshippers who sobbed and shouted. "There's an insatiable appetite for blood...the blood of our princes... Don't let Prince Leroy's death go in vain...
...Bridgeport, but other violent crimes aren't. "There's still a subculture of drugs and guns," says state senator Alvin Penn. "We may develop around it, but that subculture hasn't disappeared." The residents are sick of it. At the funeral, grievers bellowed amens when the Rev. Williams asked the assembled politicians to do more to catch criminals and--here the loudest cheers went up--protect witnesses. Many people here have come to believe that cops abandoned B.J., left him to fend for himself in the same community where the man he would name as a criminal was living...
Contacted last night, Rev. Douglas W. Sears'69, president of the Interclub Council, said hehad not yet heard of the policy shift butexpressed support...
...sang it with feeling. President Clinton Sunday joined a Methodist congregation in a hearty rendition of "We Shall Overcome," using Martin Luther King as the perfect launch pad for what may be the most important week of his presidency. The spin connection was made explicit in the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman's sermon: Dr. King was a flawed man, but his personal flaws are eclipsed by his historic achievements. While the President's lawyers prepare to slice and dice the prosecution's reading of both the facts and the law on Tuesday, Clinton hopes to shift attention to his accomplishments...