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...evening of November 5th. The New York Times reported 180 former employees of Richard M. Nixon joined the former President to celebrate the tenth anniversary of his land slide reelection victory. "Welcome Class of '72," a banner read. "The guest, the Times wrote, "did not talk about Watergate." Instead, Rose Marx Woods saluted her old boss as "the most honorable man this country ever produced." "After a standing ovation, the group joined hands and sang 'God Bless America. Nixon then strode to a piano and played 'Let me Call You Sweetheart.'" He ended his remarks by quoting Theodore Roosevelt...
...news which has come to us in the person of Jesus." It invokes a biblical vision of peace to reach its clear theme: "We must continually say no to the idea of nuclear war." It also draws on the theological theory of a "just war," first propounded in the 5th century by St. Augustine, who justified force to restrain those who would harm the innocent. Since Vatican II, some Catholics have rejected the just-war theory in favor of a pacifist option. But ironically, many of the more activist priests, who have supported revolutionary struggles in the Third World, advocate...
...Massachusetts, for the first time ever, Libertarian candidates are running for all of the top constitutional positions--senator, governor and lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer and auditor. A Libertarian is challenging Democratic Congressman James Shannon in the 5th district. The state party has candidates running in three of the 40 state Senate races...
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Lebanon's 500,000 Maronites trace their history back to the 5th century. Followers of St. Maron settled in the rugged mountains of what is now northern Lebanon. In those years, Lebanon was a haven of tolerance for persecuted Muslim and Christian sects. The Maronites, who formed a union with Rome in the 12th century, are one of the so-called Eastern rites of the Roman Catholic Church, with their own jealously guarded traditions (including a married clergy and a liturgy celebrated in ancient Syriac...