Word: christiane
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...camera, Robertson, 45, is president of the Christian Broadcasting Network, which owns stations in Dallas and Atlanta as well as Portsmouth. There are also 35 affiliated stations round the country on which Robertson buys time to air the 700 Club and his other Christian programs ranging from Bible lessons to Jesus rock. The network is uniquely successful among religious channels, most of which operate primarily with unpaid amateurs and shoestring budgets. So did Robertson at first, but he now has a $10.2 million budget...
...shortly after that event, he felt the call to go back home to Virginia. While his wife and two children subsisted mainly on donated soybeans, he tried to raise enough capital to buy and equip a defunct TV station in Portsmouth that he hoped to turn into a Christian voice. His first attempt failed, but finally, through gifts and loans, Robertson launched the station, which he christened WYAH, for Yahweh. By 1961 he was on the air with one camera and a 2½-hour program of preaching and country hymns...
Robertson's network will soon include stations in Hartford and Boston. Christian Network radio broadcasts for Britain from the Isle of Man began two weeks ago. Soon Robertson hopes to set up a satellite relay station on a hill outside Bethlehem because he believes "this should be a center of God's love for these last days before Christ's Second Coming." As Pentecostalists, he explains, "we at Christian Broadcasting act as though we haven't a lot of time left to bring the word of the Lord to the world...
Larger Hand. As hammered out in the National Covenant of 1943, the Christian and Moslem communities reached an unwritten understanding that the President of the republic would be a Maronite Christian, the Premier a Sunni Moslem and the speaker of the unicameral Parliament a Shi'a Moslem. In addition, they agreed that Christians would prevail over Moslems in the legislative and executive branches by a ratio of 6 to 5. That seemed reasonable in 1943, when Christians formed the majority of the population. Although there has been no census in Lebanon since 1932, the Moslems are almost certainly...
...other countries, a government would automatically have called out its army to put down the kind of civil unrest that beset Lebanon in the past fortnight. But Lebanon's 16,000-man armed forces, like the nation itself, are a special case. Since the high command is predominantly Christian, much of the Moslem population would have resented the army's presence-and the soldiers might have split along religious lines. So the government prudently allowed the troops to remain in barracks...