Word: christian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stepping up their assaults on military and economic targets. Last March voters gave control of the legislative assembly to the ultraconservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which has been linked in the past to death-squad activity. In presidential elections next March, ARENA is expected to defeat the moderate Christian Democrats, currently headed by President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who is dying of cancer. The new government, backed by a reshuffled military, can be expected to move more aggressively against the guerrillas, which will probably mean a heavier civilian toll...
...Christ had been packed away, and the smoke had lifted from the fire-bombed Latin Quarter theater that screened the film. But Paris still smoldered with Temptation controversy last week. An investigation into the September attacks aimed at U.S. director Martin Scorsese's movie turned up evidence that militant Christian groups linked to the ultra-right National Front led by Jean-Marie Le Pen might be to blame...
...only clue available to establish an identity, and together the details give the book a sort of magic realism. The details begin to separate themselves from the more powerful cultures that have transcribed them; the Khazar world acquires a fantastic character that distinguishes it from the Jewish, Moslem and Christian voices through which it must speak...
...year-old Christian Democrat said he had been misunderstood, was shocked by the reaction and felt "deeply sorry" for any offense caused by his remarks Thursday on the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the rampage against Jews that began the Nazi genocide...
...first ever politically-oriented discussion, the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) last night debated and postponed a vote to urge Harvard to pursue a more aggressive policy of minority recruitment than currently exists...