Word: historicizing
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The Marxist regime has rehabilitated Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, but the Lutheran Church, to which 30% of East Germans belong (8% are Catholic), has not fared so well. No more than a tenth of those baptized are still active in congregations. Christian children are often barred from higher education, except...
Now, in a six-day flight that should demonstrate anew the space shuttle's versatility, the orbiter Challenger will attempt to revivify Solar Max. If these celestial dramatics succeed, they will represent the space age's first retrieval and repair of an earth satellite. Challenger is scheduled to...
If all goes well, Solar Max's capture will be attempted on the third day of flight, when Challenger closes to within 300 ft. of the errant satellite. Mission Specialist George Nelson, 33, who has a doctorate in astronomy, will buckle himself into a manned maneuvering unit (MMU), the...
The mixture of history, passion, miscalculation, national pride and personal egotism that produced a "little" war that everyone knew was senseless and avoidable also contains the ingredients for a much larger conflict. Last and first, the Falklands war was caused by the original miscalculation on the part of the Argentinian...
Dangerous and tragic though this turn of events was, it provided a historic opportunity to deal with the problem of Lebanon by removing the causes of a national crisis that had long threatened to be mortal. The primary obstacle to peace in Lebanon had been the presence of two foreign...