Civil Disobedience Policy Adopted by Council of Churches
The National Council of Churches approved a policy stating civil disobedience is deliberate peaceable violation of unjust laws driven by conscience. The statement, debated by church leaders, emphasizes individual mature conscience and resisting specific laws only as it relates to higher law. The council represents 34 Protestant and Orthodox denominations with 42 million members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Council of Churches
Truman B. Douglass
Council
Christian Life
General Board
National Council of Churches
Batavia Man Handed Life Prison Term
Charles Williams was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of second degree murder in his wife’s bathtub drowning. Judge M Dale Osborne overruled defense requests for a new trial. Mrs Williams body was found January 26 1967 in the bathtub at the Mount Carmel home.
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Batavia
Ohio
Charles Williams
M. Dale Osborne
Clermont County Common Pleas Court
William
Mount Carmel
Krabach Set to Become Cincinnati City Manager
Cincinnati AP reports Richard Krabach will assume the city manager post on June 24 with a $40 000 annual salary after resigning as Ohio finance director to review the city budget and capital improvements. Isaac Newton’s age at gravity discovery noted as 24 in the article.
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Cincinnati
Richard Krabach
Krabach
Ohio Finance
Indictments in 1967 Yugoslav embassy bombings
A federal grand jury charged Borislav Kornic of Chicago with perjury in the first indictment linked to the 1967 bombings of Yugoslav embassies and consulates. The 25-year-old immigrant testified in Washington about the San Francisco bombing and denied participation to others, including a man named Markovic.
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Washington
Borislav Djordje Kornic
Kornish
Chicago
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
United States
Kornic
San Francisco
New York City
Federal Grand Jury
Markovic
Marjanovic
Nikolic
Burglary Alarm Sparks Vault Theft Explain Showdown
Thomasville police rushed to the Commercial Bank when an alarm sounded. They found the manager in the process of leaving for a two week vacation guiding his replacement on how to open the vault. The incident involved a burglar alarm and an alarmed response.
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Detroit
Hudson's Department Store
Church Board
Isaac Newton
Law of
Gravity
Mepis
Freulems
Medemott
Nine Flags
the Cosmetic Shop
Ottawa
Toronto
Ladies’ Shoes
Busken
U.S
Sundale
B. F. Goodrich
Thomasville
N.C
Mercial Bank
Office Outfitters
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