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This week, making his longest journey north from Rome since he became Pope, Pius XII visited the new transmitting station, now Vatican territory, and pressed two buttons to start the transmission. Then he spoke the first words to be broadcast: "Hearken, ye people from afar (Isaias 49:1) let all give ear. From the Vatican Radio's new station, above which rises high and victorious the cross, symbol of truth and charity, 'our mouth is open to you' (2 Corinthians...
...Other Man. A nuisance that often faces the junta from afar is Juan Peron in exile...
...order the heavenly hosts to let him walk on earth without any protection . . . And should he sink down on his knees with the sweat breaking out of him like drops of blood under the burden of the curse of being Man, I shall strengthen him only from afar that he might continue to suffer, just as he gave consolation to the believers, consoling them in order that they might continue to suffer...
...country and his own throne. But indirectly he was striking two blows for the West: against the prestige of international Communism and the prestige of the Arab world's voluble troublemaker, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, who was trying from afar to bring Hussein down. The danger also threatened that Nasser's ally Syria might invade Jordan-possibly toppling Hussein, possibly touching off an explosion that would drag the U.S. into hot war. It was clearly to the interest of the U.S. and of world order to deter Syria-or Egypt or Russia or Israel-from intervening against...
...This one problem provides a perfect example of the kind of puzzle the scroll scholars are up against. The Kittim, according to the scrolls, are "swift and men of valor in battle." go "over smooth ground" and "trample the earth with their horses and with their animals; and from afar they come, from the coasts of the sea." They "sacrifice to their standards, and their weapons of war are the object of their worship." Exponents of the theory that the Kittim are the Syrians see the "smooth ground" as meaning alternately a plain, a level road, the plateau east...