Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ways and the old often mix badly. The faith of some recently established congregations in rural Thailand tends to waver if prayers go unanswered. At the Ban Ti Christian Church north of Lamphun, a large blackboard hangs on the wall behind the pulpit. Prayers for rain, a speedy harvest and painless cures for various maladies are recorded every Sunday, then checked off the following week against the results...
...Guatemala, the Catholic hierarchy remains staunchly conservative. Mario Cardinal Casariego, the Archbishop of Guatemala City, says he knows of no murdered clergy in his country (there have been at least ten, according to most accounts). Says the Cardinal: "If you mix in politics, you get what you deserve." Although Guatemala is desperately short of priests, Casariego wants troublesome missionaries to leave. The Cardinal is equally perturbed by the growth of Protestant churches, which now claim 21% of the population, including the head of the government, General Efraín Ríos Montt. The general, whose brother is a Catholic...
...Weinberger is criticized for failing to come up with an overall, coherent defense strategy that would at least justify the staggering costs. Without a national strategy, Weinberger cannot know if, say, the Navy will need 600 ships by 1990 or if the Air Force is asking for the right mix of expensive F-15s and cheaper F-16s. Even a hard-liner like Melvin Laird, who served as Secretary of Defense for Richard Nixon, questions the sense behind the vast sums. "The Navy is going wild by making all these commitments on ships," Laird says. "It hasn't been...
...leadership team in a bid to attract other anti-Sandinistas under a broadened F.D.N. umbrella. But more questions were raised than answered. The six new leaders stressed their opposition to Somoza as well as to the Sandinistas. But the biographical handouts were suspiciously skimpy. The group was an odd mix: from the respectable Lucia Cardenal Salazar, the widow of a Somoza opponent killed by the Sandinistas, to Enrique Bermúdez, a colonel in the National Guard and Somoza's defense attaché in Washington from 1976 to 1979. The Nicaraguan exiles strained credulity when they claimed to know...
...suit. Despite all efforts during the flight, the suit would not reach the required pressure, 4.3 Ibs. per sq. in. (Although this is only a third of the earth's normal atmospheric pressure, it is adequate because the astronauts are breathing pure oxygen rather than the oxygen-nitrogen mix that they would get at sea level...