Word: affirmation
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...Martin Luther to exacerbate relations with West Germany. It has limited to a meager 100 the number of West German clergymen who may come to this month's ceremonies at Wittenberg commemorating the 450th anniversary of the posting of the 95 Theses. Those who do get in must affirm that they oppose Bonn's "revanchist policies." East Germany is also trying to transform Luther into a precursor of Communism: a new, authorized biography states that he started "class warfare" in Germany and more or less laid the ground for Communism-even though, concedes the author, Luther...
Washington and London found most of the maritime powers more than willing to affirm the gulf's international status. Getting them to back up the principle with force was another matter. Aside from the U.S., Britain and perhaps The Netherlands, the rest, like so many chickens of the sea, clucked with concern. Japan, after all, does a lot of business with the Arabs. So does West Germany. Charles de Gaulle refused to sign the proposed declaration or even acknowledge the validity of the 1950 Tripartite Declaration by which France, Britain and the U.S. pledged to protect Israel...
...fact is not what happens," she complains. "The sexual relationship has a tremendous emotional content; it is ongoing and lasts through marriage, and once in a while a particular act results in a baby. If you tell five-year-olds that this is the way fathers and mothers affirm their love for each other and that they can choose when they will have a baby, you are teaching responsible parenthood, responsible sexuality...
...totally silent, while that of 1964 declares that "planned parenthood, practiced in Christian conscience, fulfills the will of God." Before World War I, the U.S. Episcopalians, like the Anglicans, still called birth control "demoralizing." In October 1966, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church declared that "we affirm and support programs of population control." Even the Roman Catholic Church, until recently a staunch battler against liberalized birth control and divorce laws wherever they turned up, has begun to soft-pedal its opposition. Last year such liberalized laws have been passed by the legislature in New York and Massachusetts where...
...students thus appeared to challenge the government to name the kind of solution it would be prepared to see result from negotiations - a pronouncement which no bargainer could be expected to make. But the letter could also be interpreted as calling on the President merely to affirm that he would accept a political solution based on something less than military defeat of the enemy...