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...Despite government assurances that elections will be clean, the opposition is still suspicious of electoral manipulation. Echoing U.S. claims that Chavez is turning authoritarian, his domestic opponents argue that a President who has eliminated most checks and balances to his power might not tolerate an unfavorable election result. The electoral council is tilted towards Chavez allies, while the government has pressured state employees to support the President and has used state television to promote him. But the only director on the council sympathetic to the opposition assures that voting will be secret and that any fraud can easily be detected...
...Your special report cited research describing Americans' religious beliefs. While it is bound to be difficult to construct a questionnaire that neatly pigeonholes people's religious faith, the viewpoints representing "How Americans See God"-which included an "Authoritarian God" and a "Benevolent God"-were simplistic and incomplete. Is God authoritarian or benevolent? According to the Bible, he is both. The way people view God may be an interesting sociological study, but those views do not define who God is. Hollie Harmon Montgomery, Alabama...
...service aside, the Bush Administration has largely ignored the 58-year-old Arab-Israeli conflict, which provides pretexts for wars, feeds political extremism and bolsters authoritarian regimes. Syria's price for good behavior in Lebanon and Iraq is the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel for nearly 40 years. Labor governments negotiated towards that end with Syria, but the current Israeli government insists that the Golan is part of the Jewish State...
...electoral systems in the developed world. Jeremy Greenbrook-Held Wellington, New Zealand Your special report cited research describing Americans' religious beliefs. While it is bound to be difficult to construct a questionnaire that neatly pigeonholes people's religious faith, the viewpoints representing "How Americans See God" - which included an "Authoritarian God" and a "Benevolent God" - were simplistic and incomplete. Is God authoritarian or benevolent? According to the Bible, he is both. The way people view God may be an interesting sociological study, but those views do not define who God is. Hollie Harmon Montgomery, Alabama...
Admittedly, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is a tough group to oppose. It represents the forces of good (mothers) against the bad (drunk drivers). But the group has strayed from its roots. Once upon a time, MADD simply used public awareness to combat drunk driving; now it advocates ineffective authoritarian policies to eliminate all drunk driving...