Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gets close to Falwell except his family, Wife Macel, Sons Jerry Jr., 23, and Jonathan, 18, and Daughter Jeannie, 21. During periods of crisis in the church, associates have asked Falwell whether he wishes any particular prayers said for him, but he politely brushes them off. Instead, he urges, pray that the money keeps coming in. Though he takes a salary of only $49,500, the church provides him with a lovely 150-year-old home and use of the jet. Curiously, for all his pugnacity, Falwell has trouble confronting problems among his 2,200 employees. People who rile...
...demonstrators and pumps their hands. He usually wears dark suits and shoes and always carries a Bible. His deep, booming voice dominates all encounters. Up every morning at 6 after only five hours' sleep, he reads from Scripture for about an hour. Falwell does no exercise, watches little television except for boxing and TV news and spends hours on the phone. He has a surface knowledge of history, philosophy and even the current affairs on which he makes pronouncements...
ABORTION. The Supreme Court's 1973 legalization of this procedure is perhaps the single most important cause now energizing conservative churches. Fundamentalists and large numbers of Evangelicals base their opposition on millenniums of Jewish and Christian teaching, according to which life in the womb is to be protected, except for severe threats to the mother. (Religious traditions differ on precisely what justifies abortion.) The issue is highly divisive. According to a Gallup poll last October, 50% of Americans think abortion should be outlawed with exceptions only for rape, incest or danger to the mother's life, a view that Falwell...
...harmful microwaves, apparently in an effort to eavesdrop on communications. U.S. officials gave this account: as early as 1976, microscopic pinches of NPPD were found at the embassy. The chemical is a synthetic one concocted in Soviet laboratories and almost unmentioned in scientific literature. It has no known use except for espionage. It is odorless and, in the tiny quantities normally used, invisible, but it produces a glow under ultraviolet light and a yellow residue when treated with another special chemical...
...government's front bench, Pasqua launched into one of the strongest attacks yet against President Francois Mitterrand's four-year-old Socialist government. "If it is proved that the French secret services are | implicated in this affair," he proclaimed, "then the responsibility could not be sought anywhere except at the level of the Premier. Who is to believe that the military can act without orders? France is not a banana republic...