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...Yale, as the pastor of Detroit's Bethel Evangelical Church between 1915 and 1928. He rebelled against the older clergy in his German Evangelical denomination, agitating for Americanization of the church and supporting U.S. entry into World War I against Germany. "I am getting to be a violent American patriot," he confessed to a friend...
Unlike many leftists, he was notably consistent in distrusting Communism as dogmatic and needlessly violent. After World War II, Niebuhr became a kind of intellectual chaplain of the cold war, defining Communism in 1953 as "an organized evil which spreads terror and cruelty throughout the world." These views did not preclude the FBI from subjecting him to a "full-field" loyalty investigation...
...Center, New York's Radio City Music Hall and Atlanta's Civic Center, featuring such performers as Stevie Wonder, Bill Cosby, Bob Dylan and Harry Belafonte. The highlights were to be aired on national TV and the profits from the shows donated to Atlanta's King Center for Non-violent Social Change...
South Africa was picking on Lesotho in response to an increasingly violent campaign by the African National Congress, an organization that espouses the overthrow of South Africa's white minority government. Over the past five weeks, 13 whites have died in explosions that are believed to have been the work of the A.N.C. Accusing Lesotho of allowing the outlawed organization to give "crash courses in the use of explosives" to militants who flee into the country, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha initiated the slowdown at the border. Lesotho has long angered its neighbor by its open expressions of solidarity with...
...Administration's attentiveness to abuses in friendly regimes was underscored last week when it presented a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva condemning violent acts of repression by Augusto Pinochet's military junta in Chile. It was the Administration's strongest stand to date against the regime, which came to power 13 years ago. The same day, Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker implied that the U.S. favored black "majority rule" in South Africa and called guerrillas in the African National Congress "freedom fighters," a term Reagan has used only for anti-Communist insurgents. But when Crocker...