Word: interpretational
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...Lyle Lane, that no Cubans had participated in the Shaba raid. In fact, said Castro, Cuban advisers had learned of the raid beforehand and tried to talk the Katangese out of going through with it. Washington officials could not prove Castro wrong and were not quite sure how to interpret his words. In any case, there was no doubt that over the years, the Cubans and the Angolans had armed and trained the Katangese and were therefore implicated in the mischiefmaking...
...keep saying that?" Carter asked. "Nobody is asking you to agree to a Palestinian state. Nobody wants that." Begin kept reciting his own technical explanation of why Resolution 242 did not apply to the West Bank. "I'm not worried about the words and how you interpret them," said Carter. "What disturbs me is my impression that what you're really saying-I shouldn't put it so bluntly, but I will-my impression is that what you're really saying is that you have no intention of withdrawing from the West Bank...
...motto of space age spying: think big and think dirty. But all their gadgets, no matter how effective and sophisticated, are unlikely to make the man in the trenchcoat obsolete. Satellites and planes and bugs might dig up secret information faster, but HUMINT (for human intelligence) is needed to interpret it, and to decide what to do next...
...urges the church to work against "homophobia," the fear and loathing of homosexuals. But agreement only went so far. A conservative minority, consisting of Lovelace and two other theologians, an expert in ethics and a local pastor, filed a 19-page report. It urges the forthcoming General Assembly to interpret the church constitution as banning practicing homosexuals from the clergy and the lay offices of elder and deacon, though accepting homosexuals who remain celibate...
...minority sides staked their case on the Bible. The two passages that drew most attention were the condemnation of homosexual relations in Leviticus 18:22 (repeated in 20:13) and St. Paul's teaching in Romans 1:18-32 that homosexual acts are sinful. Disagreement about how to interpret them was the logical outcome of two general views of the Scripture that exist in the theologically divided church...