Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stops doing the Charleston on Istanbul tabletops long enough to learn that she has 12 days to lind her long lost father. Should she fail to exhibit him in a British court in that time he will be declared dead, and the company fortune will devolve upon daddy's evil partner Bentik (Robert Morlev) The prospect propels her into a harrowing two-week adventure in which hundreds of extras die and she herself narrowly escapes a dozen terrible ends. Along for the ride is Patrick O'Malley (Tom Selleck) the World War I vet who gives flying lessons when...
...President, whose natural inclinations run to hard anti-Soviet rhetoric anyway, needed little urging. In a fire-and-brimstone speech last week to a convention of evangelical Christians in Orlando, Fla., he decried Communism as "the focus of evil in the modern world" and summoned the U.S. to resist "the aggressive impulses of an evil empire...
Glowing with moral indignation, the Presi dent applied brimstone, aiming sulfurous blasts at the Soviet Union. "There is sin and evil in the world. And we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might . . . America has kept alight the torch of freedom . . . Let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness - pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware they are the focus of evil in the modern world...
While instrumental in developing and implementing the Navy's fleet of over 40 nuclear submarines, he saw them as a "necessary evil" and advocated bilateral disarmament...
Reagan has every right to point out the truth that good and evil coexist in the modern world. But he undermines his own merit by simultaneously doling out so many millions to violent dictators with titles like "General" and "President-for-life." The hypocrisy is embodied by El Salvador's d' Aubuission, who has not even bothered to hide his fascistic views from the public. Evil exists, and we must combat it, but Reagan seems profoundly confused about who falls into that category...