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...Warsaw regime's plans to impose martial law in December 1981, but according to Polish Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban, failed to do everything in its power to prevent the imposition. Solidarity's dwindling band of sympathizers warily concluded last week that the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski was hell-bent on a new campaign to intimidate and demoralize the opposition before the Tenth Polish Communist Party Congress opens in Warsaw at the end of the month...
Alternately, the fire could have been engineered by some ruthless entertainment conglomerate bent on owning all of Welles property and destroying all that escapes its greedy clutches, a sort of "War of the Welles...
...long ago as 1915, Albert Einstein predicted that as a consequence of his general theory of relativity, light rays would be bent if they passed through the intense gravitational field of a massive object. That prediction was confirmed by British Astronomer Arthur Eddington in 1919, when he traveled to an island off West Africa to observe a total solar eclipse. From there he was able to measure precisely the location of a star that became visible in the suddenly darkened sky near the edge of the sun. Because light from the star was bent by solar gravity as it passed...
...modern" bent of the Society comes from the philosophy of its founder, Father Richard M. Benson, who began the society in Oxford in 1863. "There was a clear understanding in the beginning that part of our role would be ministering to the ministers," says Father Smith. The order set up shop in an unpretentious building ministering to the lower classes of Oxford, doing active works of evangelizing, teaching and preaching. Eschewing the traditional monastic habit, they adopted the simple black cassock of the Anglican clergy, but kept to the monastic regime and took the traditional monastic vows of chastity, poverty...
Republican leaders were delighted. "I think Ortega gave us a boost," chuckled Dole. During the debate that preceded the vote, Republicans pointed to the incursion to punctuate their concerns that the Sandinistas were bent on a bold expansionist course. "Blood is still flowing as we talk in the U.S. Senate," intoned Jesse Helms, the staunch North Carolina conservative. "It baffles me that we can even be debating 90-day delays (in the delivery of contra aid) when men striving to be free are being killed." Frank Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, warned that the raid "underscores the dangers that...