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Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, longtime ecumenical envoy between Jews and Christians, praised some aspects of the guidelines as "constructive," but took grave exception to other parts. Tanenbaum said that "no self-respecting Jew" could live with passages that "imply a religious 'second-class' status" for Judaism. What especially grieved Tanenbaum and other Jewish critics was the guidelines' silence on Jewish historic and spiritual ties to the land of Israel. Any definition of contemporary Judaism that does not consider "the inextricable bonds of God, People, Torah and Promised Land," wrote Tanenbaum, "risks distortion of the essential nature...
...Third World nations in an economic revolution that is already bringing a radical redistribution of the world's wealth and political power. The transfer of riches to the oil producers has helped slow or stop the rise of living standards in many other countries?a development that has potentially grave social consequences. The steep economic growth that the industrial nations have enjoyed since World War II tended to soften social and economic inequalities because even the poor and deprived made visible progress year by year and could discern a brighter future. Now, if there is slow growth or no growth...
Free Services. The public unrest also reveals a growing dissatisfaction of many Danes with the cost of their cradle-to-grave social-welfare system, pioneered by the Social Democratic Party, which has been the country's major party for the past half-century. Increasingly, Danes question whether they can afford a constant expansion of state services that include free kindergartens, hospitals, university education, generous old-age and disability pensions, and liberal housing subsidies. More than 550,000 bureaucrats are on the public payroll against only 415,000 workers employed in all Danish manufacturing. An average of $800 is spent...
...campaigned on the platform that his election represented the "last chance" for democracy in Venezuela.* What he meant was that Venezuela was in grave danger of splitting into two an tagonistic nations - one rich, the other hopelessly poor. One of these nations consists of a foreign-educated elite in Caracas, accustomed to air-conditioned Mercedes, plush skyscraper offices and country-club amenities. The other Venezuela includes more than 800,000 mi grants who have left the country's poor rural areas to make their homes in the tar-paper shacks that cling to the hills around the capital...
...This is a very grave concern because once again the Democratic party is creating the impression that it is not the party of all. Those excluded will once again feel there are groups preferred and groups that are not preferred...