Word: dani
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dillingers trained local preachers from the first wave of converts, and Leon established the Dani Bible Institute, which now graduates 75 preachers a year. Says he: "Our greatest success is to work our way out of a job. In all developing countries, the goal should be to teach people to be self-reliant and not to rely on the big white Santa Claus...
...recently the Dillingers stood in a mountain pasture greeting hundreds of nearly naked black Dani tribesmen and women who had gathered for a traditional pig feast. The two missionaries seemed as much at ease as they would be at a church potluck supper in Leon's home town of Souderton, Pa. Leon chatted with the last man in the village to accept Christianity: the son of the sorcerer. Lorraine sampled food that a Dani woman had just pulled from the braising pit hollowed out of the ground for the occasion...
...soldiers on patrol in the Bekaa Valley on Wednesday. Said a high-ranking official in Tel Aviv's Defense Ministry: "We are sending a message to the Syrians and to the besieged Palestinians: We will not let the situation develop into a war of attrition." Meanwhile, Fadel el Dani, 37, the deputy director of the P.L.O. office in Paris, was assassinated late last week when his car blew up as he was starting it, apparently the result of a bomb. The P.L.O.'s Paris director, Ibrahim Souss, blamed "Israeli terrorism" for Dani's death, but the Israeli...