Word: chasms
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...ingenuity of President Reagan's Middle East peace plan, as several observers have noted, is that it seeks to make a distinction (a chasm, more likely) between Prime Minister Begin and his annexation policies on the one hand, and the enduring safety of Israel on the other. But the Prime Minister and the issue of Israel's safety are not so easily separated. Begin gained much of his power by appealing to his people's fear of national annihilation, a fear that is genuine in him, and not a political expedient. Indeed, the reason its expression carries...
Surely the chasm between Catholicism and Protestantism cannot be closed by gestures, visits and embraces...
...automatically part of the mysterious and sinister Soviet-Cuban network of international terrorism and revolution. The moment a Marxist government gained control of Nicaragua, the analysis continued, the Soviets had successfully stirred up a new whirlpool of undemocratic instability, slowly but steadily pulling neighboring countries into an ever-growing chasm. Once Reagan saw Nicaragua as a member of the global communist monolith. U.S. policy became little more than our attempt to prevent Fidel Castro and Leonid Brezhnev from getting the maniacal last laugh...
...topic, loosely defined, was "Peace in a Nuclear Age." And though he paid sample attention to the time-honored forms of the evangelist, he also said nuclear weapons must be done away with, decried the "chasm" between rich and poor in Central America, and declared that racial injustice in South Africa must cease. What's more, his actions of the past few weeks indicate Graham will practice what he preaches the Reagan Administration urged him to boycott a Moscow conference of religious leaders on disarmament. Graham, a longtime friend of the White House, mulled it over and then made...
...imports, once the economy starts to grow again. Though an energy tax would help prevent foreign suppliers from regaining their former economic leverage over the U.S., lawmakers are beginning to see an even more compelling reason to enact a levy. Properly drawn, a tax would help close the revenue chasm in future Administration budget projections...