Word: counterview
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...offers a counterview. "The intelligence community still believes that ((Foreign Minister Alexander)) Bessmertnykh thinks like Shevardnadze, and that he is calling the important shots," says an aide to Secretary of State James Baker. "Their view is that Bessmertnykh has his own line of communication to Baker and that Komplektov's well-known tough views mean that he will be a figurehead ambassador only. The theory is that Bessmertnykh and Gorbachev have cleverly thrown a bone to the conservatives, and that Komplektov can do less damage in Washington than in the Foreign Ministry in Moscow...
...most preposterous counterview of the week was expressed in Sofia, where Todor Pavlov, a member of the Bulgarian Politburo, declared that "the entry into Czechoslovakia by the fraternal Socialist armies saved the peace in Europe," and brazenly proposed that they be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for this accomplishment...
...ORIGINAL SIN. The concept that every human inherits Adam's guilt has increasingly been challenged by a counterview: "original sin" is man's inborn weakness, but the only sins for which a man can be held accountable are those committed of his own free will. Not so, said Paul: "We believe that in Adam all have sinned." The Pope specifically reaffirmed a pronouncement by the Council of Trent, which maintained that original sin is transmitted "not by imitation but by propagation...
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