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...support the other, Communist insurgency. Politically conservative, the cardinal is nonetheless opposed to martial law. In an interview with TIME, Sin acknowledged, though with some apprehension, that he had heard of the Catholic guerrillas. Said he: "I don't believe they should do things that way because violence begets violence." The cardinal and other church leaders also fear that a witch hunt by the government could divide the church. Army commanders, in fact, have threatened to root out "the subversive thrust of religious radicals." So far, the regime has refrained from making any arrests, perhaps out of concern that...
Dynamism may beget polarity, but the lack of leadership begets a malaise among the electorate. With leadership becoming as important an issue as the economy and foreign affairs, Connally has an almost unfair advantage in the upcoming presidential campaign...
...American political preferences seems always swinging, moving from a fear of an imperial leader to a fear of a weak one, from a desire for a moral President to a desire for a shrewd horse trader. So, as Johnson and Nixon begat Carter, now Carter could just conceivably beget John Connaly, if the horse-trading rancher can satisfy skeptical Americans that his steed is white and he will never come home with a spavined and one-eyed...
...Wayne County circuit court judge to enjoin the state attorney general from interfering in the payment of fees to surrogate mothers. Says Harrison: "The question is, does the state have sufficient interest in this entire scheme which overrides the right of privacy and the right to bear and beget children. We don't think...
Does violence beget violence? Can one lurid crime flashed instantly across TV screens and explored in the pages of newspapers and magazines inspire other crimes? Those were questions for policemen, psychiatrists and journalists to ponder last week as a rash of savagery -a kind of season of rage-erupted across the U.S. Items...