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Unfortunately, the announcement of the plane sale, even if the Administration felt it was necessary to show support for Sadat and the Saudis, caused most Jews to begin closing ranks on the bedrock issue of Israeli security...
...superb storyteller, running true to the tough, hard-eyed tradition that embraces both writers like Raymond Chandler and film makers like Sam Peckinpah. One of the most commanding, demanding of Excitable Boy's nine songs is Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, a harsh, haunted, hard-as-bedrock chronicle of a Norwegian mercenary soldier whose head is blown off by a turncoat CIA operative named Van Owen. Roland's ghost hunts...
...belief that Jesus Christ was both "true God and true man" has been the bedrock of Catholic orthodoxy for more than 15 centuries. Yet over the past decade some Roman Catholic theologians have been at odds with the church hierarchy about this dogma. They argue that orthodox theology is too static and abstract and has overemphasized Jesus' divinity to the point where he has been stripped of his full humanity. One of the most outspoken advocates of this school of thought is Priest-Theologian Hans Küng, 49, of the University of Tübingen, Germany...
...aided rising standard of living, most Puerto Ricans-despite currently high unemployment-seem to be content with their ties to the mainland; at a conference of island editors and publishers in Dorado last week, Puerto Rico's Governor Carlos Romero Barceló felt confident enough about bedrock pro-U.S. sentiment among Puerto Ricans to call for statehood. Yet the island's core of ardent independentistas insists on dismissing pro-American opinion. It reflects, José maintains, nothing but political "brainwashing...
...Speed, strength and stamina are the bedrock" on which the team will build its skills, says Felske, who hopes the team will be tougher and better than last year's squad--which didn't do so badly anyway, finishing at 10-7 for the season...