Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rolling thunder and the flash of perpetual lightning. Hour after hour, petrified families huddle in basements and stairwells as booming howitzers rain shells over the city. For the 1.2 million residents of Beirut, the past month has been a living hell. Rival militias have relentlessly pounded the Muslim and Christian halves of Beirut, with shells tearing into houses, apartment buildings, schools and even hospitals. Ambulances careen through deserted streets scooping up bodies sliced by shrapnel. During early-morning lulls, men scurry out to buy increasingly scarce bread and bottled water. Then they stop at pharmacies to stock up on tranquilizers...
Koop said his evangelical Christian beliefs remained intact despite what some called a surprisingly liberal report on AIDS he issued in 1986. In the document, Koop discussed the practice of anal intercourse and recommended that those who practice it use condoms...
Pepsi recently announced that it decided to cancel prematurely its Madonna ad, but added that the decision was in no way sparked by outrage and calls for a Pepsi boycott from Christian groups. Sure. Nothing like explaining a cool $5 million toilet flush to your shareholders, now is there...
...months following the takeover, in which students and faculty denounced the police intervention and called for the president's resignation, were a psychologically difficult time for many administrators. Pusey, who also drew heavy criticism in the late 1950s for his statements that Harvard was a "Christian" community, never understood why many had come to see him as a reactionary...
...other big loser was the U.S., which has given its public support and $1.5 million a day in aid to Duarte since 1984, when his election inspired hope that the war might end. Washington desperately wanted to build the Christian Democrats into El Salvador's bulwark against the political extremes, both the Communist insurgents and ARENA, the paramilitary organization turned political party that has been closely linked to death squads responsible for thousands of political murders. But the well-intended Duarte failed either to negotiate a peace or restore his country's shattered economy; his government was widely despised...