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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PCJ-46554 RESPOND TO SOVIET REJECTION WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senators Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.), left, and Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) hold a copy of a letter from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, dated Oct. 26, in which the Kremlin official said that the Soviet Union had made no agreement to allow Jews and others to emigrate in exchange for U.S. trade concessions. The rejection of any agreement on emigration and trade was also published by Tass, the official Soviet press agency, and broadcast on regional television and radio in the Soviet Union on Dec. 18. Sen. Jackson, who has led the drive to included the emigration stipulation in the trade legislation, said that he would press for approval of the trade bill by Congress and noted that if the Russians did not liberalize emigration, they would lose the trade benefits. Some observers felt the Tass story might be a “face-saving” tactic on the part of the Soviet government for its own people. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-WAS-12C-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362336
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46657 ASIAN CHRISTIAN PEACE CONFERENCE KOTTAYAM, India -- Delegate to the first assembly of the Asian Christian Peace Conference march through Kottayam, India, site of the assembly. Below, school children, led by Roman Catholic nuns, participate in the rally held during the assembly. The assembly called for an “absolute ban” on all manufacturing, testing and stockpiling of nuclear weapons. Assembly delegates also accused the U.S. of being the chief promoter of the nuclear arms race, and called for American withdrawal of all nuclear weapons in Asia. The Asian Christian Peace Conference is a new regional affiliate of the Prague-based CPC, once a major channel of East-West church relations but more recently found chiefly in Communist countries of Eastern Europe. Most Western CPC national groups disbanded or changed their name as a result of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The CPC now seeks to enlist members among developing nations of Africa and Asia. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (TEM-IND-1D-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362335
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46656 CHURCHES CHALLENGED ON WORLD HUNGER NEW YORK -- The Rev. Arthur Simon, a Lutheran clergyman who heads the Christian citizens’ movement on hunger -- Bread for the World -- tells a gathering of Roman Catholic Bishops and priests that U.S. Christians have failed to indicate their concern over world hunger sufficiently to prod government action on the food crisis. In asking, “Where are the Christians?” Mr. Simon observed that Church leaders have said all the right things about the world hunger and poverty situation. But, he added, Christian people at the grassroots level have not responded. He said there is a “big gap” between words and action. The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod clergyman made his remarks in a speech at the New York Catholic Center to diocesan clergy and lay officials concerned with promoting the annual American Catholic Overseas Aid Fund appeal. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by Chris Sheridan (CS-NY-1D-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362334
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46648 MAKARIOS CALMS ANTI-U.S. CROWD NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Archbishop Makarios (center), the President of Cyprus, sits on a low wall outside the U.S. cultural center in Nicosia and calms a crowd of youthful demonstrators attacking the center. The Archbishop led the demonstrators away from the center and spoke to them from the steps of the Greek Embassy a few blocks away. When he asked them to disperse, most of them did. Several days earlier, a crowd had sacked a wing of the U.S. Embassy and two British offices in Nicosia. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NIC-1D-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362333
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46647 WHERE THE TREATMENT IS FOOD RANGPUR PROVINCE, Bangladesh -- A girl and her mother sit on a bed in a hospital in Bangladesh’s Rangpur Province, one of the areas most affected by the floods which swept the country in late summer. The hospital, which is operated by Lutheran World Federation/World Service, has found that most people it admits are suffering from malnutrition and the treatment is food. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-BAN-1D-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362332
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46646 FOOD LINES REMAIN BANGLADESH -- Food lines are long and the supplies are limited, but the government of Bangladesh, with the help of relief agencies, is attempting to feed its more than 15 million homeless people. The homeless are mostly peasants who lost everything in the floods which swept the nation during the summer, causing the total failure of many crops and destroying countless homes. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (C-BAN-1D-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362331
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46645 ARMED INDIANS TO CONTINUE OCCUPATION GRESHAM, Wis. -- Melvin Chevalier (seated) of the Menomonee Warrior Society holds a carbine and another Indian displays a sawed off shotgun during a news conference at the Alexian Brothers Novitiate near Gresham, Wis., which Indians have occupied since Jan. 1. The Indians renewed their demands for the deed to the property and an unconditional amnesty. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-WIS-1D-74-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362330
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46644 TENSION AND PRAYERS IN NORTHERN IRELAND BELFAST -- With the end of the Irish Republican Army Provisionals’ cease-fire, tensions returned to the streets of Belfast and other cities in Northern Ireland. At left, a soldier keeps his finger on the trigger while another soldier checks a van for explosives or firearms at a vehicle checkpoint. At right, people stand in silent prayer during a peace rally at Belfast’s City Hall. About 12,000 people turned out for the interdenominational rally, marching through heavy rain. Leading Protestant and Roman Catholic clergymen conducted a brief prayer service. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B/A-BEL-1D-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362329
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46640 EUCHARIST BY WOMEN LEADS TO CHURCH TRIAL CLEVELAND -- Bishop John H. Burt of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio reads a statement ordering the convening of an ecclesiastical court to try the Rev. L. Peter Beebe (right), pastor of Christ Episcopal Church in Oberlin, on charges of breaking canon law by permitting two women to celebrate the Eucharist in his church Dec. 8. The two women, the Rev. Carter Heward of New York and the Rev. Allison Cheek of Virginia, had been among the 11 women who took part in an irregular service of ordination last July that was later declared invalid by the Episcopal House of Bishops. If Father Beebe is found guilty of disobeying Church law, he could be censured, suspended from his duties in Oberlin, or expelled from the priesthood. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-CLE-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362328
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46621 CONFRONTATION SHAWANO, Wis. -- Police help guard the Shawano County, Wis., Sheriff’s Department while Indian demonstrators picket the building. The demonstrators were seeking removal of police checkpoints around the Roman Catholic novitiate in Gresham that had been seized by the Menominee Indians on New Year’s Day. The Indians have demanded that the unused 64-room building and the surrounding complex, owned by the Alexian Brothers, be turned over to them for use as a health and housing facility. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-WIS-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362327
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46620 ‘SHOW BUSINESS CHAPEL’ NEW YORK -- For Austin Miles, the term “show business chapel” has two meanings. It is the title of a series of 100 “spots” that the 40-year-old Assemblies of God minister has recorded in Detroit for national distribution through Video Associates, Inc. And it is also a description of the portable worship center that he takes with him on his travels as announcer for the Royal Lipizzan Stallion Show, “The Wonderful World of Horses.” As the first international show business chaplain of the Assemblies of God, Mr. Miles has brought a Christian witness to the horse show, as he had done earlier for several circuses he had served as ringmaster. “Show business people are no different from any other people in their basic needs,” he points out. “They’ve got problems, face temptations, have tough schedules. Even a glamorous performer needs assurance of the love of God.” Here, Mr. Miles (right) chats with G. Edward Nelson Jr. of the American Bible Society in the portable chapel he has set up in a Madison Square Garden dressing room. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by Chris Sheridan (CS-NY-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362326
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46618 A LADY TAKES THE CHAIR NEW YORK -- Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), introduces Margaret Bush Wilson, the first woman to head the civil rights organization, during a New York press conference. The NAACP’s board of directors elected the St. Louis lawyer as chairman from among four contenders to succeed Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood, who died in December after serving as chairman since 1961. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-NY-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362325
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46615 REPORT ON CORPORATE CHALLENGES NEW YORK -- Representatives of groups in the Church Project on U.S. Investments in Southern Africa report on stockholder challenges underway against U.S. corporations doing business in southern Africa during a press conference in New York. From left to right are: Dr. Howard Schomer of the United Church Board for World Ministries; Canon Burgess Carr, general secretary of the All Africa Conference of Churches; Dr. Donald Wilson, chairman of the Church Projects; Brother Robert Taylor of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement; and Timothy Smith, coordinator of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility. It was announced that 14 U.S. religious groups have joined in a stock action asking International Business Machines (IBM) to stop selling computers to the Republic of South Africa. Nine Protestant agencies and five Roman Catholic orders, owning a total of more than $9 million in IBM stock, are parties to a shareholder resolution that accuses the corporation of supporting South African “apartheid” (racial separation). Computers, challengers say, help South Africa’s white minority government “oppress” the black majority. IBM is one of seven corporations being challenged this year on South African operations by one or more groups in the Church Project. The other companies are Phillips Petroleum, Getty Oil, Standard Oil of California, International Telephone and Telegraph, Union Carbide and the Southern Company. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO by John Lei (JL-NY-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362324
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46611 SUPER BOWL CHAMPS AT PRAYER NEW ORLEANS -- Owner Art Rooney (left center in dark suit) joins members of his Pittsburgh Steelers pro football team in prayer after they won Super Bowl IX in New Orleans, defeating the Minnesota Vikings, 16-6. The Steelers won their first National Football League championship in 42 years of trying by sopping Minnesota’s running game, giving up a total of just 21 yards. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (A-NO-1C-75-DC)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362323
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Description:46608 Text transcribed from caption: PC-46408 [sic] RACIAL FIGHTS CLOSE TO SCHOOL BOSTON -- Police remove students from Boston’s Hyde Park High School after an outbreak of racial fights. Fifteen students were arrested after a hallway scuffle between black and white students. The school was then ordered closed for the day. Sporadic violence has erupted at Hyde Park since school opened in September under the controversial court-ordered busing plan. The school was closed in the Fall but an uneasy truce had existed between white and black students since before Christmas. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (AA-BOS-1C-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362322
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46601 LONG LINE OF REFUGEES PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- As Cambodian insurgent increase their offensive, long lines of refugees are once again on the move towards the relative safety of Phnom Penh. Civilian casualties have been heavy in the fighting, which at some points is no more than 10 miles from the Cambodian capital, and at lease 20,000 new refugees have flooded into Phnom Penh since the beginning of 1975. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-PP-1B-75-DS)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362321
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46599 ROCKETS BLAST HER HOME BIEN HOA, So. Vietnam -- A South Vietnamese woman sifts wreckage for belongings after her home was blasted by a Russian-built rocket. Vietcong fired 19 missiles at the nearby Bien Hoa air bae; some fell short, killing two civilians wounding others, and wrecking homes. Bien Hoa is 15 miles northeast of Saigon. Meanwhile, North Vietnamese forces overran Phuoc Binh, 75 miles north of the capital, following a six-day siege. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-1B-75-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362320
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46598 FOOD FOR THE OCCUPATION GRESHAM, Wis. -- Indian mediators Artley Skenandore, left and Neil Hawpetoss display to newsmen food destined for militant Indians who occupied the Alexian Brothers Novitiate near Gresham, Wis. The food, including sandwiches and soup, was the first allowed to be sent to the Indians since they took over the group of buildings on New Year’s Day. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-1B-75-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362319
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46597 LEADERS OF A.I.M. DISCUSS TAKEOVER SHAWANO, Wis. -- National board members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) leave Shawano County Sheriff’s office after discussing the Indian takeover of a group of buildings owned by the Alexian Brothers near Gresham, Wis. Left to right, they are Herb Powless, Dennis Banks and Russell Means. They said they hoped to help negotiate with Indians holding the Catholic order’s novitiate property. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-1B-75-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362318
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: PC-46592 ALLENDE AIDES IN PRISON CAMP SANTIAGO, Chile. -- Chilean Communist Party leader Luis Corvalan, center, and other former aides of overthrown Marxist President Salvador Allende, line up for lunch at a military prison camp. Chile’s current government released the picture to show the condition of the prisoners arrested after the coup of Sept. 13, 1973. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (2-NY-1B-75-W)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:362317
