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To Neuhaus, it is only natural to think of meeting God as an American, since nationality is part of one's identity. In his new book, Time Toward Home: The American Experiment as Revelation (Seabury; $9.50), he goes well beyond that. He thinks Americans must accept moral responsibility for...
The trouble is that the current census (unofficial, because no one wants to provoke a crisis with an official count) no longer bears much relationship to the unwritten National Covenant of 1943, which established ratios. The Moslems, once a minority, now total 1.8 million and exceed Maronite Christians (1.2 million...
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...
Beirut's street battles were the week's most spectacular event. Cabled TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager from Beirut: "The fighting brought into the open old fears of sectarian feuding in a country whose delicate political structure is a tapestry of extraordinary complexity, based on an almost even division...
B'NAI B'RITH (Sons of the Covenant). Founded in New York City in 1843, it is an international service organization with more than 500,000 members attached to lodges and chapters in 40 nations. Its $13 million budget is used for the cultural, recreation and social needs...