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...graffiti blackly spattered, its viewers can have faith that God provides for believers. As a result, there is no reason to care for the truly needy beyond one's small circle of friends. To clutch a phonebook and express passionate concern for those listed is enough. If, God forbid, evolution accounts for changes in ideas as well as species, Jerry Falwell's fractured vision of a human community originated here. Individuals, the PTL people see their bank accounts filling in the sight of the Lord and rejoice. They can afford expectations...
...year after Ezer Weizman resigned in May 1980, once remarked to Deputy Prime Minister Simcha Ehrlich: "Sharon might surround the Prime Minister's office with tanks." Not even Sharon's military colleagues trust his commitment to free government. Says former Cabinet Secretary Arye Naor: "If ever, God forbid, he reaches the supreme position, I wonder what the fate of Israeli democracy will...
...visit to Peking, writes Kissinger, "became the last normal diplomatic enterprise before Watergate engulfed us. "He returned to Peking nine months later, in November 1973. By then, a U.S. Congress that was increasingly challenging the authority of the President had voted to forbid all American military action in Indochina. With this prohibition, Kissinger notes, "our principal bargaining leverage was lost." As a result, an American proposal for a cease-fire in Cambodia was aborted-the Khmer Rouge had no need to negotiate for something that had already been handed to them by Congress-and Chou Enlai, who had agreed...
Last week's legislation represented the most stringent anti-bushing policies ever to win the approval of a House of Congress. Put forth by Helms and Sen. J. Bennett Johnson (D-La.), the rider to a justice Department allocation bill would forbid all courts from ordering busing of students living more than five miles or 15 minutes from a school. It would also apply retroactively to nullify much court-ordered busing around the nation...
...about 160 complaints filed against licensed doctors with the state licensing board were serious enough to warrant an investigation. But because the board is so hamstrung by insufficient funding it failed to investigate thoroughly all the cases that came to its attention. To make matters worse, excessive regulations effectively forbid the board from fully suspending physicians while they are under investigation; many who should be painting houses continue treating patients...