Word: crackdowns
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...world's most famous believer in inerrancy is Evangelist Billy Graham, but the most controversial hard-liner today is the Rev. Jacob A.O. Preus, 54, a Minnesota Governor's son with a Ph.D. in classics. Preus' crackdown as president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod led to the seminary walkout and the current threat of church wide schism. His personal view of Genesis includes a global flood in the Noah story and a six-day creation (though he leaves open to question how long the "days" were and how old the earth is). He believes literally in the Adam...
...ferocity that surprised even its own leaders, the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army was being hunted down last week not only in Ulster, where the I.R.A. has been on the defensive for some time, but in the Irish Republic and England as well. In part, the crackdown was a response to the widespread outrage that followed the pub bombings in Birmingham last month in which 21 people were killed and another 184 injured (TIME, Dec. 2). The campaign included arrests in Ulster and Britain of suspected I.R.A. supporters and a comprehensive new criminal bill in the republic aimed...
...none has been forthcoming. Thieu seems reluctant to gag the opposition, at least for now, apparently fearing the impact that a crackdown would have on Gerald Ford, the U.S. Congress and American opinion. The Pentagon had originally asked for $1.6 billion in military aid, which South Viet Nam desperately needed, but Congress has tentatively trimmed aid for the next fiscal year to $700 million. The Administration had hoped to get $750 million from Congress to shore up Saigon's sagging economy, but Capitol Hill seems more likely to settle for a modest $400 million. For Nguyen Van Thieu...
...Brown Sugar." The Dutch connection is not as big or as broad as its famed French predecessor-at least not yet. Until a U.S.-sponsored multilateral crackdown on the international drug traffic began to take effect last year, laboratories in Southern France converted staggering quantities of Turkish opium into heroin for distribution in the U.S. and other countries. Police seizures of as much as 50 kilograms (110 lbs.) of heroin were common. New York detectives two weeks ago captured 165 lbs. of Turkish-derived heroin (street value: $113 million) that was stashed in a shipment of Louis XIII furniture being...
...Beyond the legal confusion, some credit the failure of the porn crackdown to the quiet spread of a kind of laissez-faire attitude toward pornography below the level of judges and prosecutors. It may well be that both the Supreme Court and its critics have lagged behind the country. The national mood could be pointing to an uncensored future, envisioned by Justice Brennan, in which consenting adults will be free to decide for themselves what they will read...