Word: outletting
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Welch decide he needed a long-term outlet for his views, so on December 9, 1959, in Indianapolis, Ind., Welch and 11 friends founded the John Birch Society. John Birch was a young Baptist preacher who had served as an Army captain in China during World War II. Chinese Communists had killed him ten days after the Japanese surrendered, and Birch was, according to Welch, "the first American to die in World War III." The society's basic philosophy holds that "The world is engaged in this war from which either Communism or Christian-style civilization must emerge with...
...caucus-goers begin arriving, half an hour early. Every seat is soon taken and still people are streaming in. Kalal announces that the caucus is moving to larger quarters in the basement of the Methodist Church a block away. Once there, Kalal starts looking for an outlet for his projector in back of the dark oak podium. But nowhere is there a three-prong outlet. Kalal, slightly ruffled, dispatches someone to find a blackboard. "I'll have to play this by ear," he says, opening the meeting. "I'm Jim Kalal, your temporary chairman, and this is your...
...This new outlet of religion is controlled almost totally by the Evangelical-Fundamentalist-Pentecostal wing of Protestantism. It is a chicken-or-egg question whether broadcasters foster the Evangelical tide or vice versa, but they now own more than 1,400 radio stations and 35 TV stations. Four religious "networks" feed programs via satellite to stations and to thousands of cable-TV hookups. The network organizers dream of the day they can offer a total "family-centered" and "wholesome" alternative to commercial TV, complete with "Christian" soap operas and newscasts. Their talk shows already draw on a gospel celebrity circuit...
...Baluchis, who have long yearned for autonomy, might welcome a Soviet-inspired Afghan invading force that would promise to honor the Baluchis' "legitimate aspirations" -as Afghanistan's new President, Babrak Karmal, has vowed to do. A friendly regime in a breakaway Baluchistan would give the Soviets an outlet to the Arabian Sea at the port of Gwadar and, from there, access to the Persian Gulf. "If I were a Russian," General Fazal told Carrington, "I would take the soft underbelly of Pakistan in Baluchistan and head straight for the warm waters of the Persian Gulf...
...with the U.S. is a threat to his dream of an Islamic republic, the establishment of which is his overriding goal. At the same time, he will not accept any settlement that would appear to be a defeat. If he feels totally boxed in, he just might seek an outlet in national martyrdom, by provoking the U.S. to military action...