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Ronald Reagan's godly fervor has been building during his three White House years, and there are moments now when he seems to be more a man of the cloth than a man of politics. He unabashedly tells people he is giving his remaining years to the Lord. Not only is Billy Graham still hovering around the presidency, but electronic soul savers like Jerry Falwell can often be found in the back corridors of the White House...
...people are rightly worried about Presidents' taking their cues from on high. Woodrow Wilson's fervor sank his marvelous ideas about peace. Jimmy Carter's conviction that he had a special relationship with God and could get answers through prayer instead of the National Security Council may have been the biggest cause of his ineptitude. Reagan is at his worst when he is thumping his Bible and counting God among his Cabinet. He had best heed some old advice. "I am concerned to know not whether the Lord is on my side," said Abraham Lincoln, "but whether...
Another sign that the nation's revolutionary fervor may be ebbing is that the Islamic Guards, Khomeini's elite military organization, are actively conscripting new members. Until recently, the Guards screened all applicants scrupulously to make sure that no opponents of the regime were admitted to membership. Now, however, the Guards are competing with the army for recruits. In some cases, the Guards have taken young draftees who were awaiting induction into the army, creating yet another area of friction between the Guards and the armed forces...
More fundamental, Chernenko and his contemporaries are sensitive to the fact that today's youth belong to the first generation that has not been directly touched by the fervor of the Bolshevik Revolution or tempered by the monumental sacrifices of World War II. In his speech last year, Chernenko complained that "our young people have not seen firsthand the grim trials of class struggle and war, when the true face of imperialism with its hatred for the peoples of our country and for the socialist system was laid absolutely bare." Such finger wagging does not find a receptive audience...
...religious fervor behind the resistance to the Israeli occupation adds another dimension to the problem. The people of southern Lebanon are predominantly Shi'ite Muslims...