Word: fighting
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...Pacifism is not biblical," says Robertson. Too bad Robertson went to Yale Law School--if he had gone to Yale Divinity School, he might have learned something. An irrefutable application of the "just war" concept did not occur until the fight against Nazi Germany. Charlatan theologians such as Robertson and Falwell have absolutely no authority to embrace the Contras with this tenet...
...Thailand, after his coalition government was defeated on a crucial parliamentary vote in a domestic political fight, Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda dissolved the National Assembly and called elections for July...
Last week Gallo angrily accused the Montagnier team of greediness. "I don't get any money," he emphasized, pointing out that royalties on the test go to its manufacturers and the U.S. Treasury, not his personal bank account. "The fight is theirs--to get the money," he charged. "My name is used in vain." But Pasteur scientists would not reap personal profits either. The proceeds, explains Spokeswoman Caroline Chaine, would go to the institute, which "lives on the funds and the patents of its research." Says she: "We want our work to be recognized...
...fight for the Austrian presidency came down to a contest between Austria and the world. Four months ago, Socialist Kurt Steyrer enjoyed a narrow lead over Conservative Kurt Waldheim, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations. Then the World Jewish Congress revealed that Waldheim had concealed his service as a German army lieutenant in the Balkans between 1942 and 1945. Waldheim admitted that he had not left the army in 1941, as he had previously implied, but professed ignorance of any systematic extermination of Yugoslav partisans or the removal of Greek Jews to death camps. Last week...
Nuclear foes are clearly spoiling for a fight. That is nowhere more true than in West Germany, where confrontations between protesters and police have long been common. Says Dieter Kersting, a leading opponent of plans to build a fuel-reprocessing facility in a forest clearing near the Bavarian town of Wackersdorf: "The Chernobyl catastrophe clearly strengthens our position." Noting that officials have consistently called the chances of a meltdown virtually nil, Kersting added, "Who can believe those assertions...