Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nader. The effort backfired in one respect: though the skit was indeed amusing, Nader portrayed himself altogether too accurately as a driven zealot. Congressmen agree that Nader does his homework, but they are repelled by his insistence that his position is the only morally right one. Says Representative David Obey, Wisconsin Democrat: "Members are just fed up with being equated with evil if they vote against Nader...
...clear danger that the fedayeen would use those enclaves for further attacks on Israel proper. Moreover, the P.L.O. is hopelessly divided in its leadership; even if a Palestinian ministate was formally bound by treaties to live in peace with Israel, there is no guarantee that rejectionist guerrillas would obey the rules...
...three weeks-three battalions of 350 men each will patrol a six-mile-wide zone along the Israeli border. They will man checkpoints and replace P.L.O. combatants in that area. The agreement is that the Palestinians will then pull back to the Litani; they say they will obey the rules. After all, they point out, it was the Palestinians who first suggested the new arrangement in the south several months...
...will for detente and progress will ultimately triumph, and mankind will be able to step into the 21st century in conditions of peace, stable as never before." To make this big step, added Carter, echoing St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, "our planet must finally obey the biblical injunction to 'follow after the things which make for peace...
...warnings no fewer than three times. At a weekly audience last month, he pointedly stated that "Jesus himself admits the possibility of excluding from fraternal communion" anyone who threatens the unity of the church. On June 20 the Pope sent the archbishop a personal, handwritten letter beseeching him to obey Rome. At a ceremony to install new cardinals, just two days before the ordinations, Paul issued his final plea. "Our predecessors, to whose discipline he presumes to appeal," Paul said, "would not have tolerated a disobedience as obstinate as it is pernicious for so long a period, as we have...