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Article: Major media ignore ties connecting Bush to Unification Church. (former Pres. George Bush makes speeches on behalf of church's Rev. Sun Myung Moon in Tokyo, Washington DC, and Buenos Aires)(Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 12, 1997
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When George Bush jumped out of an airplane last spring, his skydiving feat was big news. But this country's media outlets have failed to inform the public about far more important activities by the former president.
Last November, four months before his leap with a parachute, Bush traveled to South America where he provided a major boost for the launch of a newspaper that belongs to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
Since leaving the White House, Bush has been quite helpful to Moon. However, the news media have lacked curiosity about Bush's ties to the shadowy power-broker who heads the Unification church. Moon's global empire combines cult-like authority over ...