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...Bless. Early this year Nortlisea's Swiss owners decided to open their Dutch mouth. They tried to repay their loan, but Veronica refused the money. The Swiss thereupon armed themselves with pistols, sailed to their ship in a tugboat, overpowered Veronica's men, took them ashore and replaced them with their own crew. They hired one of Veronica's top D.J.s, Joost de Draaijer (Johnnie-Turn-Them-On), and began broadcasting 24 hours a day in Dutch (v. 1 8 hours for Veronica...
...plan almost worked. Shortly before midnight, less than an hour after the frogmen had planted dynamite in the engine room, Disc Jockey West announced: "Flames are approaching the studio, we are abandoning the ship. Goodbye and God bless . . ." Everyone but the captain, the chief engineer and one sailor clambered overboard into lifeboats. But a Dutch tugboat, a firefighting ship from Rotterdam's Europort, a Dutch navy frigate carrying 250 battle-dressed marines, a navy Neptune reconnaissance plane and a helicopter all converged on the scene and put the fire out before it could damage the transmitter...
...professors, bless their souls, do make it clear that they disagree with Prof. Huntington's "policy recommendations." However, they see this as no reason to call him a war criminal. And what are Prof. Huntington's policy recommendations? He is well-known for an article in Foreign Affairs (July 1968). In it he frankly praises the use of massive bombardment and technological destruction on such a scale as to empty out the Vietnamese countryside. The result of this tactic is-in his famous word-"urabnization." Now it so happens that policies like those recommended by Prof. Huntington are implicitly...
...Pike's first marriage was annulled and his second marriage ended in divorce. In certain cases, the Episcopal Church offers a private procedure in which excommunicated divorced persons can apply to a bishop to "bless" their marriage and then readmit them to the church after suitable time and scrutiny. But, technically at least, there is no remarriage in the church...
...believe totally," emphasizes Father Christian, "in the New Testament, especially Matthew 5:44 ['But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.']" At the center of the Process belief is the "Law of the Universe," manifest in Christ's belief that "as you give, so shall you receive." It is, for them, a law reflected everywhere. Those who have difficulties in life are only receiving what they have put into life; those who kill must expect...