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...Wednesday, when Vance phoned to report that the Middle East peace talks had hit serious snags, Carter told him in cryptic language???even though he was using a scrambler phone?that the agreement with Peking was almost set. The President referred to it as "the matter that only five of us are involved in." After several more exchanges of cables with Peking, Brzezinski informed Carter at about 1 p.m. Thursday that work on the communique was finished. The President smiled and said, "Good deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter Stuns the World | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...population. And both men, as sons of Quebec, seek the goal that is at the heart of Canada's crisis. That is the preservation of the French language and culture within a country of 23 million people, nearly three-fourths of whom have English as their first or only language???a country, moreover, that shares

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Secession v. Survival | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Despite the evidence of enriched religiosity, there is enough in the Catholic Pentecostalist movement to account for the hierarchy's reserve. It is casually ecumenical. Its speaking in tongues ?glossolalia, a form of prayer that is usually a babbling non-language???is done quietly, but it is done. The Pentecostals have the unhappy faculty of offending both liberals and conservatives in Catholicism: liberals resent their insistent orthodox theology, conservatives their communal lifestyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Rebel Cry: Jesus Is Coming! | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

Since Mr. Drinkwater has made use of Burns' poems, there is besides Robert Burns probably only one other play in the English language???The Beggars' Opera? with an equal number of good ballads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fauts and Folly | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

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