Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the second half of the biography describes the politics of the Cold War, as Lippmann himself dubbed it. His view was totally pragmatic, emphasizing the need for the United States to preserve an operational balance of power, not to concentrate on spreading the American gospel of freedom. He did not feel the United States could impress its version of democracy on foreign peoples themselves struggling for the right to self-determination. Yet he also felt the honesty and reason of American policy-makers would guarantee a peaceful and just resolution of the Cold...
From the pulpit, through the mails, in leaflets, at mass rallies and on such TV programs as Falwell's Old-Time Gospel Hour, which appears on 373 stations, members of Moral Majority and allied groups pound home the same message: the U.S. is in a terrifying moral decline, and Christians have a duty to reverse it by registering and voting for candidates who agree with their moral principles. As enunciated by Falwell and other conservative evangelicals, those principles are remarkably similar to the Republican platform-which in fact Moral Majority had a hand in shaping...
...Paris suburb, the Washington slaying aroused speculation that the long arm of revolutionary vengeance had reached all the way from Iran. Police officials, so far, have no concrete evidence to link the crime to Tehran. But one thing is certain: Salahuddin was a devout believer in Khomeini's gospel of killing one's enemies...
...Republicanism came there out of personal experience and alarm, driven to conservatism and Reagan not by birthright but because of the tax burden, Government regulations, inflation and interest rates, fear of another war. If they reflect the majority of this nation, then Ronald Reagan has only to preach his gospel and to keep smiling and he could...
...firmly attached three conditions: there must be no sacrifice of spiritual mission, no "participation in political party activity" by the clergy and no Marxist "concentration of all in the hands of the state." Said the Pope: "We are not experts in politics or economics . . . We are ministers of the Gospel...