Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many American Jews had deep misgivings initially about Carter, a Southern Baptist with few ties to the Jewish community. He stilled doubts by asserting that Israel should maintain control of the Golan Heights and Jewish and Christian places of worship in Jerusalem. He also pledged to continue military aid, and he promised to wage an "economic war" against the Arab states if they imposed another oil embargo...
...afraid, however, that the fractured centrist parties would be trounced as voters turned to more dynamic candidates on both left and right, thus recreating the "two Spains" of old. So he stepped in himself. His lieutenants converted the faltering centrist alliance into a coalition composed of Social Democrats, Christian Democrats, liberals and a number of former Franco officials. Although he promised to resign if the U.C.D. lost, the Premier was sensitive to opposition clamor about the unfair advantage his office might give him. Thus he made only one campaign appearance. But he managed, nonetheless, to get across the message that...
...elders failed to lead. And the townships will never be the same. True, some aspects of the old Soweto still exist: the neatly kept gardens of middle-class black homes; the Dube Lawn Bowls Association, whose members still gather every Sunday in their English whites; the Zionists, an Africanized Christian sect, famous for their daylong religious dances that begin at prayer services in backyard tents on Saturday nights...
Much of Western opposition to homosexuality is based on Judeo-Christian teachings, particularly biblical prohibitions ("Thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is an abomination"). Laws based strictly on religious injunctions are unconstitutional unless they serve a compelling secular purpose. In the case of antihomosexual statutes, the social goals are vague and difficult to pinpoint but real to most people. Some law writers say such statutes preserve the American family concept. Others suggest that they guarantee continued propagation of the species. Still others say the goal is discouragement of promiscuity, or the adherence to a philosophical-moralistic...
...Fairbank's success far outshines that of America's China missionaries (the number of Chinese Christian converts was always embarrassingly small) then it may perhaps be attributed to Faribank's capacity to understand his pupils, a capacity that the missionaries lacked. It is not only because Fairbank's books are so widely read that David E. Kelley, a current graduate student in East Asian studies, says of the professor, "It's hard to see where his personal perspective ends and his influence on others begins." And James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation who wrote his doctoral dissertation...