Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interpreted as a U.S. nudge to Franjieh to step down. Together with Waring, 56, a Lebanon veteran since 1972 and the father of four children, and driver-bodyguard Zohair Moghrabi, Meloy set out from the U.S. embassy, situated in Moslem-dominated West Beirut, for the drive to Hazmieh, a Christian-controlled suburb where Sarkis keeps a home. Initially, a chase car manned by three Lebanese security men from the embassy trailed his light green, partially armored Chevrolet Impala, but dropped away before the entry into no man's land−apparently because Christian militiamen on the other side...
Responsible political organizations all quickly deplored Coco's murder, but they also projected it into the increasingly hectic election campaign. Premier Aldo Moro, stumping for the Christian Democrats, deplored "a grave disturbance at a delicate electoral moment." The Communists, by means of a statement in the party newspaper L'Unità, protested that such "ferocious criminality" was meant to prevent Italians from making "new choices to bring Italy out of its crisis and disorder." Added the statement: "In the face of this worrying reality, the action of the government appears inadequate and weak." Political observers thought the mysterious...
...convention as a whole has any authority to dictate policy to the 34,902 member churches, most of which have less than 300 members and all of which name their own ministers. "Southern Baptists are independent as hogs on ice," says Floyd Craig of the convention's Christian Life Commission. "Baptist churches range from authoritarian to permissive. But we do all share one common individual belief: If you're hungry and a man won't give you bread, then that man is no-account...
...West, carrying Scriptures in their saddlebags and baptizing new converts in the creeks and cow ponds of the prairies. Out of the hellfire tradition of revival-tent meetings grew an uglier tradition of prejudice and violence. The burning crosses of the Ku Klux Klan were a grotesque perversion of Christian principles, but an image was formed. "It became dangerous in the South to be intelligent," as H.L. Mencken scolded during the heyday of Klan power in the 1920s. "Every Baptist pastor became a neighborhood Pope ... Every pastor was a chartered libertine, free to bawl nonsense without challenge ... What the poor...
...Roman Catholic President that led a group of Southern Baptist ministers to join in interrogating John F. Kennedy about his religious views in 1960, the last time that religion played a major role in U.S. presidential politics. Even today, says Foy Valentine, executive secretary of the Baptists' Christian Life Commission, "Roman Catholics who want tax money for their parochial schools and so forth will catch it from the Southern Baptists." But Carter says: "I've never tried to use my position as a public official to promote my beliefs, and I never would...