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What Burrows will not change is the Army's religious philosophy or its military structure. The revival-minded Protestant group holds strictly to an eleven-point orthodox statement of doctrine and a literal interpretation of the Bible. It is so insistent upon simplicity in worship that it shuns all services of baptism and communion...
...organizations had been called together for a meeting at Gaddafi's stronghold, the Bab al Azizia barracks. The purpose: to demonstrate radical Arab support for Gaddafi in the face of U.S. naval maneuvers taking place off the Libyan coast. The delegates, who included Habash and Jabril, duly approved an eleven-point resolution proposing, among other things, the creation of suicide squads for commando attacks against American targets in the U.S. and elsewhere "if the U.S. should dare to launch an aggression against Libya or any other Arab country." Added the joint declaration: "He who sets a fire must be burned...
...different outcome in early July, when Turner dissolved Parliament and scheduled new elections. Though he had succeeded Trudeau only nine days earlier and could have called for a vote as late as next spring, Turner decided to take advantage of opinion polls that showed his party with an eleven-point lead over the Tories. Immediately, however, the new Prime Minister committed his first major blunder: he reappointed nearly all Trudeau's ministers to his own Cabinet. Bowing to pressure from his predecessor, Turner also awarded cushy patronage posts to 17 Liberal colleagues...
...numerous antigovernment guerrilla groups, was sighted in the jungle below. This time, however, the flag signified the making of history, not war. In a small clearing in the Alto de la Mesa rain forest, F.A.R.C. guerrillas and the government's representatives met to sign a momentous eleven-point cease-fire agreement. Last week Colombian President Belisario Betancur Cuartas triumphantly announced on national television his government's formal acceptance of that pact...
...Williamsburg summit, a crushing Conservative victory in this week's parliamentary elections seemed all but assured. Still, there were unexpected signs of voter uneasiness with the prospect of a Thatcher landslide. A poll by Market and Opinion Research International (MORI) showed the Tories with a comfortable though dwindling eleven-point lead over Labor. Yet the survey also indicated an upsurge in the fortunes of the centrist Social Democratic/Liberal Alliance, mostly at Thatcher's expense. In a week the level of support for the Conservatives dropped from 51% to 43%, while the popularity of the new alliance jumped from...