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Thirty years after the flamboyantly autocratic "Kingfish" was assassinated in a hallway of the state capitol in Baton Rouge, the man who used to be known back home as the "Princefish," Louisiana's Senator Russell Long, 46, offered some revisionist thinking. "By any objective standards," said Huey's...
Backbone or Banana. Equally important, an election now would catch the Conservatives at a time when their party is deeply split over the curmudgeonly leadership of aging (69) ex-Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Yet the north woods are full of politicians who have learned to rue the day they counted...
Abolition & Prohibition. Today, unquestionably, the purposes of religion and government are more common than cross. Los Angeles Jesuit James Vizzard calls this new era of good feeling "a coalition of conscience and power." It marks a new phase in U.S. church-state relations, which has seen, as a National Council...
Even as law courts and legislators were slowly building Jefferson's wall, history created situations where the paths of church and state converged. During the 19th century, for example, the Government subsidized frontier preachers to help pacify-even as they tried to convert-warring Indian tribes. In the Reconstruction...
Ceausescu again defended the Rumanian decision to industrialize, and as for Comecon trade, he asserted flatly that "Rumania develops economic relations with all states, irrespective of their social system, on the basis of mutual advantage." Ceausescu went on to make clear that Rumania's economic independence was merely the...