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...been imprisoned along with Cancel Miranda and Flores for a pistol attack on the House of Representatives that wounded five Congressmen in 1954. The unrepentant Lebrón told the cheering throng: "We have done nothing to cause us to repent. Everyone has the right to defend his God-given right to liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: We Have Nothing to Repent | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...sick and tired of long and tedious conversations in the backseat of my 1965 Mustang during which I tried (usually in vain) to convince some sweet Delta plantation princess that it was irrational for two healthy, mature adults to deny themselves the God-given pleasures of sexual play. I figured that anybody intelligent enough to get into Harvard would not let something as puerile as religious convictions prevent her from living a normal adult life. Sure, I wrote the perfunctory essay about how I was going to use my Harvard education for the benefit of mankind, or, at least...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: A Ticket to Ride | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...settlers claim a God-given right to settle anywhere in the West Bank, the biblical land of Israel. They say a proposed Israeli evacuation to Sinai settlements could set a precedent for the dismantling of Israel's 50 settlements in the West Bank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vance Visits Saudi Arabia; West Bank Jews Are Evicted | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

...Lord is pleased that his people have reestablished a settlement on the site. Almost no one else is. Shiloh is the newest of four illegal settlements in the West Bank created and populated by Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), a nationalistic religious group that believes in the God-given right of Israelis to inhabit ancient Judea and Samaria. Washington, most Arabs and even many Israelis regard the settlements - and the Begin government's refusal to uproot them - as a major obstacle to peace. Even the Israeli soldiers guarding the 60 men, women and small children of Shiloh from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Shiloh: An Obstacle to Peace | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...injury made a graceful exit possible, but Koz decided he wasn't going to get beat that easily. Being able to play football, he feels, is a God-given gift. Not to try and use that gift would be a shame...

Author: By Abraham C. Marcus, | Title: Learning to Deal With It | 10/25/1977 | See Source »

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