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...among all levels of society was crucial to establishing the republic and is essential to maintaining it. The N.R.A. has gone further, putting firearms at the center of a faith so fierce that the ordinary terms of political belief -- words like "conviction" and "position" -- may not be sufficient to grasp it. Says N.R.A. Executive Vice President J. Warren Cassidy: "You would get a far better understanding if you approached us as if you were approaching one of the great religions of the world...
...trendy nor fashionable, but a basic American belief that spans generations. The N.R.A.'s strength has never originated in Washington but instead has reached outward and upward from Biloxi, Albuquerque, Concord, Tampa, Topeka -- from every point on the compass and from communities large and small. Those who fail to grasp this widespread commitment will never understand the depth of political and philosophical dedication symbolized by the letters N.R.A...
...Vilnius fuel-machinery plant, he spied a sign in Russian reading not more rights but full independence. "Who gave you that?" Gorbachev challenged a Lithuanian welder. When the worker replied that he had made the sign, Gorbachev switched to a softer approach, commending the man on his grasp of Russian. But the worker would have none of Gorbachev's compliments. "You don't think we know how to write in Russian?" he challenged. "We can read and speak Russian too, while there are lots of Russians who can't speak a word of Lithuanian...
...European Community have all pledged to help Rumania mend its wounds and have dispatched shipments of food and medicines. But even with the best of will, there is little outsiders can do beyond providing emergency aid until the transition government, or the one to follow it, manages to grasp firm control. In an attempt to achieve that and broaden its base, the Front at week's end expanded from 60 to 145 members. Among the newcomers were representatives of some ten nascent political parties and local action committees and citizen militias from around the country. Once a solid coalition...
...curriculum as expressed in its new University-wide capital campaign. For better or worse, we Americans have got to prepare ourselves to participate in a world--a global village--wholly different from the one our parents and grandparents were born into. Both the quality and range of our grasp of societies, peoples, and cultures beyond our national borders have to be extended enormously, relative to that available to our parents' and grandparents' generations...