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...proliferation of new Bibles is a mixed blessing. The English-speaking world has lost a resounding common text that shored up faith and lived hi the memory of millions. The new texts, however, represent attempts to live with change and challenge readers to ponder anew the spirit and the message of Scripture. -By Richard N. Ostling...
...either opposed or did not understand the war in which they were fighting. Potential adjustment problems were exacerbated by the divisive mood of the country when the soldiers came home. That ambivalence persists: the return of the Iranian hostages and the attendant celebrations made many Viet Nam veterans agonize anew over their status as social outcasts. Says Lee Sloan, associate director of the study: "They got blamed for losing. They got blamed for going. They got blamed for the atrocities...
...petroleum age in 1859, when he drilled 69½ ft. into the ground along Oil Creek, near Titusville, Pa., and hit history's first oil gusher. Now, after more than a half-century of decline, the oil-and gasfields of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and New York are gurgling anew. The fields are part of what geologists call the Eastern Overthrust Belt, a corridor of convoluted limestone, sand and shale that stretches 1,200 miles along the slopes of America's Appalachian Mountains, from the Adirondacks to Alabama...
Even the present Soviet leaders, says Haig, "are never influenced by Western rhetoric ... They are influenced by Western deeds." So their drive to expand Communist power and influence must be checked by a U.S. policy bearing three prime characteristics: consistency ("Effective policy cannot be created anew daily, informed solely by immediate need"); reliability ("American power and prestige should not be lightly committed but once made, that commitment must be honored"); and balance. Haig defines balance as the ability to "reconcile a variety of pressures, often competing." For example, he believes that balance requires the U.S. both to negotiate for arms...
...have also made a sizable effort to sift the thinking of others and to present what we believe to be the best and most promising proposals. We hope that concerned citizens and experts in many groups, organizations, schools and colleges?possibly even in Government?will consider these issues anew. Our chief purpose is to dispel the notion that nothing can be done. Thus we also report on many people who have in fact done a great deal, have already begun their own American Renewal...