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Under the auspices of the Interior Department, government workers erect a large nativity scene on the Mall near the Washington Monument. Burford is revealed to have taken several key church leaders to lunch prior to the decision to mount the display...
...Supreme Court decision earlier in the year, Nativity scenes this season also adorn the public parks and buildings of some municipalities that had ceased putting them up while the issue was in dispute. But the Supreme Court's ruling, permitting the city of Pawtucket, R.I., to erect a creche, failed to settle the matter. Crèche critics, insisting that many of the displays still represent unlawful government sponsorship of church activity, are seeking to severely limit the court's ruling. As a result, the jingle bells of the season once again were interrupted by the jangle...
...first time in a long while, as the result of a ruling by the Supreme Court last year, municipalities will be able to use public funds to erect Christmas creches on public land. The reappearance of the creches is all the more ominous when considered in the context of the growing number of attacks on traditional church-state separations...
...maintaining the separation of church and state infect the Court, a reversal may be in the cards for the 1962 Engels vs. Vitale decision when the Burger Court banned prayer from the schools. Just last year the Court allowed a Rhode Island town to use taxpayers money to erect a creche over the opposition of civil liberties and Jewish groups. According to Professor of Education and Social Structure Nathan Glazer, on issues like abortion and school prayer "local option will be accepted to a greater degree and the Court will leave room for local variations...
...From the air," reported TIME'S Andrea Dabrowski, the only journalist on the mission, "the ravaged area looks like a surrealistic patchwork, with a few brick and adobe houses still standing defiantly erect alongside the skeletons of completely scorched buildings. Down on the deserted streets, a choking gray dust now covers everything. A stray dog searches for its owner and snaps at anyone who tries to peer through what was once a window. The destruction seems haphazard. A completely undamaged kitchen with a green refrigerator opens into the hulk of a demolished bedroom. Fragments of lives are scattered everywhere...