Word: facto
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...terms; there are only about 100 female pastors among the 40,000 churches that make up the denomination. But its message - which will be accompanied by affirmations of Southern Baptist distaste for racism, homosexuality, pornography, abortion and mercy killing - is unmistakable. "This week's vote will propel previously de facto attitudes into the realm of church law," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "It's another step toward a complete conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist convention...
...Administration aide. Helms sticks to a few cold war issues like Russia and China and lets the panel's younger Republicans lead hearings on other subjects. But Helms' committee still approves State Department nominees and treaties, a power he has used in a masterly way to become a de facto Foreign Minister...
...Syrian army has occupied Lebanon for almost as long as the Israelis have, and Damascus retains de facto military and political control over its fragile neighbor. Israel's Lebanon dilemma had for most of the past decade been a key bargaining chip in Syria's efforts to negotiate a peace agreement involving Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. Israel's unilateral retreat from Lebanon has now deprived Damascus of that leverage, calling Syria's bluff. Moreover, it's beginning to raise the question among Lebanese of what purpose is served by Syria's presence, which has been presented...
...refusal to accept Assad's demand of total Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, which Israel took control of during the 1967 war. Syria's primary leverage in dealing with Israel in recent years has been its ability to guarantee security in Lebanon, which is subject to de facto Syrian military control, and allow Israel to end an occupation that's deeply unpopular with the Israeli electorate. But when talks broke down over the Golan issue, Prime Minister Ehud Barak decided to call Syria's bluff by unilaterally withdrawing from a war that was costing Israeli lives with little security...
...rebels, who are fighting for independence for the mostly Tamil northern provinces they refer to as Eelam (the Hindu Tamil form about 20 percent of Sri Lanka's population, with the majority Sinhalese, who are largely Buddhist, making up about 75 percent) are likely to demand de facto control over the Jaffna peninsula as their price. In acceding to such a demand the government would concede defeat in a campaign that has cost the army thousands of casualties. And even though Kumaratunga's war powers proclamation allows her to shut down newspapers, that's unlikely to stop Sri Lankans from...