Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty-one soldiers were killed in the latest incursion, the highest toll for a single South African military maneuver since 1976. The Johannesburg Sunday Express offered a national prayer: "Lord, spare us from victory. The year has begun with another victory in a war we are destined to lose." Botha's disengagement pleased the Reagan Administration, which has been working to effect an overall settlement in the area that would eventually lead to the removal from Angola of Cuba's 26,000 troops and advisers. In recent weeks, U.S. officials have engaged in talks with representatives of both...
...experience with the former is not encouraging. After years of letting the group set their tones and rhythms, the remaining bachelors find their loneliness difficult. And without the calming core with which music provided their lives, they are restive. The appearance of Edoardo Morelli (Pierre Malet) is an unspoken prayer's answer. He is a superb musician. He is a handsome and energizing presence on the stage and in their lives. He can find women, pot or a high-stakes poker game wherever they go. He reminds them all of their lost youths and awakens their unused parental instincts...
Officials in Washington cite him as having prevented attempts by Sen Jesse Helms (D.N.C) to stop the Supreme Court of jurisdiction on civil rights issues such as busing, abortion and school prayer. The failure of the proposed Helms-Johnson Amendment, according to many observers, helped preserve the independence of the judiciary branch...
...Minister Yitzhak Shamir, behaved with great delicacy. Like an earlier West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, who visited Israel in 1973, Kohl went first to the Yad Vashem memorial, Israel's monument to the victims of the Holocaust. As a girls' choir sang - and a cantor offered a prayer "for the dead, Kohl laid a wreath beside the eternal flame. At a dinner that evening, Shamir told his guest, "We are not prisoners of the past. We remember it out of belief in a better future...
Last week, after an Israeli position near Tyre came under fire, Israeli troops besieged the Shi'ite mountain village of Halloussiyeh. They arrested eight villagers, including the local prayer leader, Sheik Abbas Harb, and bulldozed his house to the ground. Villagers threw stones at the Israelis and set tires afire on nearby roads...