Word: orthodox
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From the standpoint of orthodox military thinking, almost any diminution of forces or equipment amounts to a weakening. Moreover, cutting training operations will obviously affect readiness. The question, however, is whether the force level or degree of preparedness can be reduced without damaging real security requirements. Laird did not address himself to that issue except by implication. If indeed the country's security interests are being put in jeopardy by any of the steps taken, however reluctantly, by the Pentagon, then Congress or the Administration or both should be called to account. It appears, to the contrary, that Laird...
...Russian) on walls, the fact is that the Russians do not entirely trust Husák. He is in an unenviable position: rejected by the reformers because he replaced Dubček, disliked by the Czech majority because he is a Slovak and hated by the orthodox pro-Soviet elements (who imprisoned him for eight years) because he is a nationalist who believes in limited reforms...
...Gomulka, who in July 1944 as chief of the Communist resistance movement in Poland helped establish the fledgling Soviet-backed regime and later, because of an ideological dispute with Stalin, was jailed for five years. As part of the festivities, Gomulka invited only fellow leaders who share his tough orthodox beliefs in the need for discipline and Communist unity as well as common borders with Poland. Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev showed up; so did Czechoslovakia's Party First Secretary Gustav Husak, who last April replaced Reformer Alexander Dubcek. But absent was the most inflexible hard-liner of them...
...Lutherans see it, neither of the two other major Protestant groupings now emerging-the Protestants in the ecumenical Consultation on Church Union and the various Baptist groups -will be "credal": they will not, as groups, adhere to a fixed creed. On the other hand, nine million Lutherans with an orthodox set of beliefs that include such traditional doctrines as the Trinity and original sin would occupy a unique and important position between the rest of American Protestantism and Roman Catholicism...
...league was started last year by Orthodox Rabbi Meir Kahane, 36, a former lawyer who helps edit an emotional weekly devoted to Jewish affairs and who ministers to the congregation of the Rochdale Village Traditional Synagogue in the New York City borough of Queens. "We see here the beginnings of the 1920s in prewar Germany," warns Kahane. "This is a question of Jewish survival-nothing else." The newspaper ad, which Kahane wrote, declares: "Maybe some people and organizations are too nice. Maybe-just maybe -nice people build their own road to Auschwitz...