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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46290 KEEPING THE PEACE OUTSIDE QUNIETRA, Golan Heights -- Appearances are deceiving at times. This is not a battle outpost but a peace outpost. A member of the United Nations peacekeeping force is on watch near the cease-fire line between Syrian and Israeli forces in the Golan Heights. The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to renew the mandate of the peacekeeping force, set to expire Nov. 30, for six months and called for early negotiations toward a Middle East peace settlement. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-TEL-12A-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362031
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46277 ASSEMBLY ADOPTS TWO RESOLUTIONS ON PALESTINE UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. -- The U.N. General Assembly votes on one of two resolutions supporting Palestinian aspirations. The first resolution, approved 89 to 8 with 37 abstentions, said that the Palestinian people are entitled to self-determination without external interference and to national independence and sovereignty. A second resolution giving the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status at the United Nations was approved by a vote of 95 to 17 with 19 abstentions. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-11D-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362030
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46270 VENGEANCE AND GRIEF BEIT SHEAN, Israel -- Angry residents of Biet Shean, Israel, throw a body out a window of an apartment house (left photo) to a crowd below where it was burned. The incident followed an attack by three Arab guerrillas on the village near the Jordan border. The Arabs had attacked an apartment block and killed four Israelis before being shot themselves in a gunfight with Israeli soldiers. As soon as the shooting stopped, residents rushed to the apartment where the Arabs lay dead. Several men hurled the bodies out the window and they were burned in a bonfire. In their fury, the men mistakenly pushed out the body of an Israeli who was apparently killed by the guerrillas and it was also burned. At right, a couple grieves during funeral ceremonies for the four dead villagers. Nineteen others were injured in the pre-dawn attack. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B/A-TEL-11C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362029
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46245 PRESIDENT DISAVOWS GENERAL’S REMARKS ON JEWS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Ford has reproved the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. George S. Brown, for making “ill-advised” remarks which claimed that Israel has “too much influence” in the U.S. Congress. The general was also quoted as saying, Jews “own, you know, the banks in this country, the newspapers.” Ron Nessen, the President’s press secretary, told newsmen that Mr. Ford had disavowed the remarks made by Gen. Brown on Oct. 10 at Duke University. He said the President “considers Gen. Brown’s remarks ill-advised and poorly handled” and “feels very strongly about it.” Several national Jewish organizations have urged President Ford to dismiss Gen. Brown. They charged that his remarks, made public Nov. 13, were malicious and prejudicial to Israel and American Jews. Members of Congress also protested the general’s comments. Gen. Brown, in a telegram to the Jewish War Veterans and in a later statement, apologized for his remarks made during a question and answer session following a speech to Duke law students in Durham, N.C. He said his “true feelings concerning Jewish Americans were not reflected” in the remarks reported in the press. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-WAS-11B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362028
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46244 U.N. ASSEMBLY HEARS ARAFAT, TEKOAH UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. -- At top, Yasir Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), acknowledges applause as he takes the podium to address the United Nations General Assembly. Mr. Arafat, whose appearance spurred numerous protests, told the Assembly that his organization’s goal remained a Palestinian state that would include Moslems, Christians and Jews. Below, with Israeli chief delegate Yosef Tekoah at the podium preparing to deliver a rebuttal to Mr. Arafat, representatives of the PLO (left front) and members of Arab delegations walk out of the Assembly chamber. Mr. Tekoah said that a state such as proposed by Mr. Arafat would mean the destruction of Israel and the substitution of an Arab state. He branded the Palestinian guerrillas as terroristic and murderous and vowed his government’s determination to fight them implacably. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NY-11B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362027
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46241 ISSUES THREAT AGAINST ARAFAT NEW YORK -- With a pistol prominently displayed on his desk, Russell Kelner, who claims he is the chief of operations of the Jewish Defense League, tells newsmen that “We have trained men who will make sure that Arafat (Yasir Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization) and his lieutenants do not leave New York alive” during a press conference at the JDL’s New York headquarters. On the wall behind Mr. Kelner is a picture of Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the militant Jewish organization. The day after making his threat against Mr. Arafat, who came to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Kelner was arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and charged with violating a Federal law that prohibits someone from using interstate commerce to threaten to injure and kidnap another person. Mr. Arafat arrived at the United Nations under tight security precautions and addressed the General Assembly without incident. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-NY-11B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362026
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46212 RALLY PROTESTS UN BID TO PALESTINIANS NEW YORK -- A crowd estimated at more than 100,000 jams Dag Hammarskjold Plaza opposite United Nations headquarters in New York (top photo) to denounce the organization’s invitation to representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to address a session of the its General Assembly. Sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the rally was one of the largest Jewish demonstrations in the history of New York City. Below, Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), left, one of several political leaders who addressed the rally, wave to the crowd. Others on the speakers platform include, left to right, Rabbi Israel Miller, chairman of the Conference of Presidents; former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Sen. Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.), and Dr. Arnold Olson, president of the Evangelical Free Church of America. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (JL-NY-11A-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362025
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46201 A VICTORY FOR THE PLO RABAT, Morocco -- Yasser Arafat, a leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), grins and flashes a victory sign as he sits in on the final session of the Arab summit meeting at Rabat, Morocco. At the meeting, Arab leaders voted unanimously to recognize the PLO as “the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people” and called for the creation of an independent Palestinian state on any occupied “Palestinian land” that Israel must relinquish. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-RAB-10E-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362024
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46516 SOLZHENITSYN TALKS RELIGION WITH GRAHAM STOCKHOLM -- Exiled Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn (left) and American evangelist Billy Graham discuss world religious trends during a meeting in Stockholm. Mr. Solzhenitsyn was in Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature he was awarded four years ago. After the discussion, Mr. Graham said: “Solzhenitsyn has the kind of intellect and moral courage that the world so desperately needs today. His grasp of both history and theology is amazing.” The evangelist was on the first stop of a trip to several European countries in which he planned to visit with religious leaders, including the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Donald Coggan. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-STO-12B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362023
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46510 WOMEN CELEBRATE EUCHARIST AGAIN OBERLIN, Ohio -- Two of the 11 women who took part in an irregular ordination service in Philadelphia last July offer Holy Communion during one of two Eucharist services they celebrated at Christ Episcopal Church in Oberlin, Ohio. The Rev. Carter Heyward of New York (left) and the Rev. Allison Cheek of Annandale, Va., are joined by the Rev. Robert Hall, an Episcopal priest who teaches at a Roman Catholic school in Steubenville, Ohio, at the altar rail during Communion. Another of the 11 women, the Rev. Jeanette Piccard of Minnesota, was present but did not celebrate the sacrament upon advice of her attorney. The services marked the third time that Episcopal women have celebrated the Eucharist since the Philadelphia ordinations and the second time that it has occurred in an Episcopal church. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-OHI-12B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362022
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46509 MAKARIOS RETURNS TO CYPRUS NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Archbishop Makarios, the president of Cyprus who had spent five months in exile, officiates at a Sacred Liturgy in Nicosia’s St. John’s Cathedral on the day after his return to the island. In a speech on his return, the archbishop vowed to oppose the partition of the island between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. He said he would offer amnesty to those Greek Cypriots who ousted him in the July coup. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-NIC-12B-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362021
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46508 ‘REDEMPTION’ MARIKINA, Philippines -- Sculptor Eduardo Castrillo spends a moment alone at “The Redemption,” his work at Loyola Memorial Park in Marikina, a Manila suburb. The basic subject of the work is the Last Supper but the artist says he tried to “crystallize” the great mystery of the death, passion and resurrection of Christ in the sculpture. The 13 figures are set in a circular base, made from tons of brass sheets which were painstakingly cut, shaped, polished and welded together. At 42 feet, Christ is the dominant figure, standing almost twice as tall as the others. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-MAN-12A-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362020
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46504 ‘CRUCIFIXION OF MAN’ GENEVA -- In a Geneva studio, Guido Rocha works on his “Crucifixion of Man,” a work he says is based on the physical torture he suffered in the prisons of Brazil. Mr. Rocha was arrested for protesting against oppression, was tortured and then “acquitted.” He then fled to Chile where he was caught up in the military coup that overthrew the government of Marxist President Salvador Allende in Sept. 1973. Again arrested, he spent 40 days in detention at Santiago’s National Stadium before being released and admitted to Switzerland as a political refugee. A special scholarship to the School of Fine Arts in Geneva has enabled him to work on his “Crucifixion of Man.” When it is finished, Mr. Rocha intends to present it to the World Council of Churches as his way of thanking the churches for their assistance to Chilean refugees. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-GEN-12A-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362019
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46501 CHILD’S WORLD (One Of Three Photos) SRE AMPEL, Cambodia -- A Cambodian boy loads an M16 rifle for his father during a battle southeast of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. There is no peace on earth for this youngster. (SEE ALSO RNS PHOTOS PC-46500 & 02) Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-CAM-12A-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362018
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46297 ANTI-TEXTBOOK MARCH CHARLESTON, W. Va. -- Dr. Carl McIntire (center, dark coat), the fundamentalist radio preacher, flanked by the Rev. Marvin Horan (left), pastor of the Leewood Freewill Baptist Church, and the Rev. Ezra Graley, pastor of Summit Ridge Church of God, leads some 2,000 demonstrators in a “national rally” against the controversial English textbooks. The demonstrators marched in cold, rainy weather to the Charleston Civic Center for the rally. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (GA-WVA-12A-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362017
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46294 PRESIDENT FORD GRANTS PARDONS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Ford gives pens to members of his clemency board after signing papers granting full pardons to eight civilians convicted for their resistance to the Vietnam war and giving conditional clemency to 10 others who will receive full pardons after completing periods of alternative service. From left are: Gen. Lewis W. Walt, former Marine Corps commandant; Charles E. Goodell, chairman of the clemency board; and Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., head of the Urban League. Mr. Ford was acting on the first recommendations from the nine-member clemency board established on Sept. 16. The board has received 770 applications for clemency from persons already convicted and punished for desertion or draft evasion. Names of those given pardons were not released. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-WAS-12A-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362016
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46293 ADDRESSES PRO-BUSING DEMONSTRATION BOSTON -- Mrs. Coretta Scott King addresses pro-busing demonstrators at Boston’s City Hall. Mrs. King told the gathering of 5,000 that Boston’s racial problems are “an isolated throwback to what we had hoped was a forgotten era of infamy and hatred.” Listening is Rep. Robert Drinan (D-Mass.), who also addressed the group. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-BOS-12A-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362015
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46292 LITTLE HOPE RANGPUR, Bangladesh -- A woman, with a look of hopelessness in her eyes, sits outside a tent in a refugee camp near Rangpur, Bangladesh. She is but one of hundreds of thousands of people affected by famine and floods which have struck Bangladesh. In the Rangpur area alone, reports of deaths of more than 50,000 people were confirmed by government officials. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-GEN-12A-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362014
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46285 PROJECT CONCERN CLARKRANGE, Tenn. -- Dr. James Turpin, a former ministerial student, has become a major personality in the field of health care. A native of Ashland, Ky., Dr. Turpin attended Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, a United Methodist institution, planning to enter the minister. But he found this was not where he should be. Still wanting to find a place of ministry to the needs of mankind, the entered Emory’s School of Medicine and earned an M.D. He soon found his place. While practicing in California, Dr. Turpin became aware of the medical needs of the people living in Tijuana, Mexico’s, slums, so on weekends began giving assistance at a small charity clinic there. His interest in providing medical care for the disadvantaged grew and in 1961 he founded Project Concern. A year later the first Project Concern out-patient clinic was established in a disease-infested ghetto of Kowloon, Hong Kong, where more than 20,000 populated a six-square-block area. That beginning sparked what is today one of the leading private-sector health-care organizations in the world. Project Concern treats more than 500,000 persons annually, providing a full range of medical and dental services to impoverished people in the U.S. and abroad. It operates four hospitals and 11 clinics in Hong Kong, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Mexico, in Bisti, N.M., on the edge of the Navajo Reservation and in Appalachia at Clarkrange, Tenn. While Dr. Turpin spent the first decade of Project Concern’s existence with organizations and fund-raising work, by the early 1970s it had become firmly established and an administrative staff had been selected and headquartered in San Diego. In 1972, he and his doctor wife, Mollie, assumed medical directorship of the Appalachian program headquartered in Clarkrange. Four days each week two white mobile health-care vans ply the narrow, winding backroads of rural Tennessee bringing medical and dental care to the hill people. More than 1,000 patients are treated each month through the mobile vans. At top, Doctors James and Mollie Turpin look over a medical record and discuss a patient’s needs while other personel are busy. Dr. Turpin a 10 to 12 hour day. Below, a dental crew, inside a van, work on patients at Pine Haven, Tenn. The group is training young patients to care for their teeth in addition to providing treatment. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (DR-GA-11D-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362013
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46282 BIBLE WEEK LUNCHEON NEW YORK -- At top, actor Alexander Scourby shows John J. Riccardo (center) president of the Chrysler Corporation and National Bible Week chairman, one of the three-volume sets of 64 cassettes he recorded of the entire King James Version of the Bible which were presented to Mr. Riccardo during the Bible Week luncheon in New York, Dean Baker (left), president of the Laymen’s National Bible Committee which sponsors National Bible Week, looks on. Mr. Scourby read Scripture selections at the luncheon. Below, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, led by Mercer Ellington and augmented by the Roscoe Gill Singers of Philadelphia, performs selections from the Concerts of Sacred Music composed by the late Mr. Ellington. The composer’s sister, Ruth Ellington, was given a citation of appreciation in honor of his memory. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-NY-11D-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362012
