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Fortunately, the Protestant princes ignored such savage recommendations, and the Lutheran Church quickly forgot about them. But the words were there to be gleefully picked up by the Nazis, who removed them from the fold of religious polemics and used them to buttress their 20th century racism. For a good Lutheran, of course, the Bible is the sole authority, not Luther's writings, and the thoroughly Lutheran Scandinavia vigorously opposed Hitler's racist madness. In the anniversary year, all sectors of Lutheranism have apologized for their founder's views...
...buttress its case, the agency has placed in evidence voluminous documents that spell out details of the family business never before made public. They indicate that the holdings acquired by Newhouse, the son of poor Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, have grown into America's biggest family-owned media conglomerate. After two years spent interviewing Newhouse executives and studying financial records, IRS Appraiser Joseph Baniewicz put a value of $1.23 billion on the estate at the time of the publisher's death. Sons Donald, 53, and Samuel I. Newhouse Jr., 55, who seem to have inherited their father...
...case. It was immediately publicized by the State Department even though it somewhat undercut the American position. A remark by the pilot of the Su-15 that shot down the airliner, originally said to be unintelligible, was revised to read, "I am firing cannon bursts." This seemed to buttress the Soviet claim that its pilot had fired tracer shots to warn the Korean jetliner away from Soviet airspace...
...document in question consists mainly of a series of commitments to hold, over the next three years, further international meetings aimed at addressing such issues as disarmament, international security and human rights. The Madrid draft agreement also includes the broad declarations of respect for human rights provisions that buttress the Helsinki Final Act. Among the values mentioned: freedom of religion, the right to form free trade unions, and "the freer and wider dissemination of printed matter"-a euphemistic reference to freedom of the press. Said President Reagan of the document: "Together with the Helsinki accords, this agreement sets forth...
Both the advocates and the opponents of capital punishment had statistics to buttress their arguments. Abolitionists noted that since 1965, the number of murders that would have been punishable by death had not increased significantly. Prison guards announced their support for the noose, while prison governors felt executions would only worsen conditions in the tense, overcrowded cell blocks...