Word: documentation
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This week the Vatican is issuing a long-expected document that clearly challenges liberation theology and brands it in its more extreme forms as a perversion of the Christian message. Upholding the primacy of traditional Catholic teaching, the document aims at alerting "the faithful to the deviations . . . damaging to the faith and to Christian living produced by forms of liberation theology that uncritically borrow Marxist ideas." It declares that Marxism holds out the false hope that a revolutionary society will be a just one, while itself creating new forms of oppression. Those who aid such revolutions, it says, "betray...
...write this platform. They would like to take credit for it, but with all due respect to them, it was written by a group of young, activist-oriented Republicans who are not comfortable sitting on the sidelines. The platform is not a narrow, negative, nationalistic, Communist-bashing document. There are elements of conservatism associated with values we Republicans share about the family and Judeo-Christian ideals. But it is liberal with regard to trade and the inner city. I think the platform expresses a newness...
...inflation and a plunging birth rate were assaulting its good, sturdy and traditional markets. Sears, like many of the American families that were its customers, was suffering an identity crisis. It was being squeezed between the pricey specialty shops and discounters like K mart and Wal-Mart. A secret document known as the "Yellow Book" that leaked out of the Chicago headquarters in early 1978 admitted the company's shortcomings and warned that Sears had to get back to its roots. Said the study: "We are not a fashion store; we are not a store for the whimsical...
...many political analysts attributed that defeat in part to Labor's commitment to nuclear disarmament, which would dramatically change Britain's role in NATO. Last week the party, led by Neil Kinnock, issued a 52-page defense manifesto that eliminated any remaining doubts about its program. The document recommended a policy that would remove all U.S. bases from the country, scrap the British atomic arsenal and work to make Europe a nuclear-free zone. Declared the party: "We should no longer behave as though we are a great power or the center of a global empire...
...signed by Williams and authenticated by two handwriting experts. He has declined so far to produce the form or to say what date is on it, claiming that such information might help Williams' lawyers in case they are planning a lawsuit. Penthouse Attorney Roy Grutman, who calls the document "a comprehensive, cover-the-waterfront, adult-model release," is equally definite on another point. "Everything in my legally educated mind knows that a lawsuit is in the wind...