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THESE RELIGIOUS OVERTONES represent a new twist to the familiar pattern of Hollywood occult and science-fiction. Their space heroes don't win their battles with zap-guns alone; they've got to have the force. Magic spells cannot kill their monsters--the mother has to conquer them with the strength of her faith and love of family. As for their creatures from outer space, they cannot drop dead without being swiftly resurrected...
...still well taught in British schools. "The English think that the most important event of the Elizabethan age," explains Anglican Historian Henry Chadwick, who is also an adviser to Archbishop Runcie, "was the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, when the King of Spain sent a fleet to conquer the English ships and to invade and impose Roman Catholicism on the people. When people say the Pope ought not to come, they are saying that something like the Spanish Armada is on our doorstep again. They have a notion that one last ship was left behind...
DEATH REVEALED. Marty Hoey, 30, Washington State mountaineer who was trying to be the first American woman to conquer Mount Everest; of injuries in a fall on May 15; in the Himalayas, 2,600 ft. short of the 5½-mile-high summit. Hoey was the only woman on a team scaling the rarely climbed Great Couloir of the mountain's north face...
Although only a half-time employee of University Hall, Dr. Counter appears to have an edge on the minority associations whose legitimacy he wishes to usurp. He knows the axiom "divide and conquer" and has learned how to apply it quite effectively...
...state that "not a single nation in the world recognizes the Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem." Historically, na tions never acknowledged the owner of Jerusalem. Everyone had a good reason to annex it, attack it, save it, conquer it, bury it. Why can't we stop worrying about who owns the city and be happy with what Jerusalem represents...