Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...servants, Moorish guards on white stallions, walls covered with Goya tapestries-and obsequiousness everywhere. Foreign ambassadors who were granted audiences with the Caudillo had a precise protocol of steps and bows. In addition to his love of pomp, Franco was a man of rigid decorum, methodical habit and deep Christian piety; his orderly days included regular attendance at Mass and midnight recitation of the rosary with his wife, the former Carmen Polo y Martinez Valdés. His few moments of relaxation were spent with his six grandchildren by his only child Carmencita, or in painting. Seascapes were his favorite...
Each time embattled Beirut tries to pick up the pieces after a makeshift truce dampens political sectarian violence, something happens to rekindle the fighting and paralyze the city. Last week, only four days after the start of another ceasefire, the multifactional civil war between right-wing Christian Phalangists and left-wing Moslems raged anew. In one day there were at least 200 kidnapings. Two of the victims were Americans: Charles Gallagher and William Dykes, the director and deputy director of the regional center of the U.S. Information Service. The first foreigners to be kidnaped during the latest troubles, they were...
...their private militias who are responsible for the violence, Premier Rashid Karami faced increasing pressure to resign. He tentatively increased patrols by army troops in Beirut's downtown business sector and at all entrances to the city. Because most commanding officers in the 18,000-man army are Christian, Moslems fiercely oppose large-scale use of the military. Karami so far agrees and has warned that bringing in the army could destroy the country. But as the righting continued unabated, it seemed that the country was already approaching the edge of destruction...
That separation has meant that public schools don't teach religion, which in turn has brought about a dissociation of Christian (but not Jewish) religion from intellectual endeavor. American Christians, the dean of the Divinity School says, worship more out of "childlike faith" than scholarly piety...
...charter between God and man was added a second covenant, one between man and man: "We, the people ..." This second covenant was drafted by a second, extraordinarily articulate set of "founding fathers." These were men who were influenced by the European Enlightenment and who embraced a kind of post-Christian system that still sometimes did acknowledge the Christian God and respected the man Jesus. Thomas Jefferson found various religions "all good enough" because they helped preserve peace and order, but he could also be critical. Benjamin Franklin "respected them all," but he took sides against the more dogmatic and sectarian...