Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who would opt only for prayer and stickless diplomacy are of just as much concern as Reagan. For instance, Senator Edward Kennedy wants to have Congress order Reagan to keep the fleet from maneuvering in Central American waters: an idea that is probably as unconstitutional...
...Secretary of State stopped first in Saudi Arabia to find out how much pressure the Saudis were willing to exert on Syria. It is the holy month of Ramadan, and Shultz had to wait in Jidda while King Fahd spent the day at prayer in Mecca. The two finally met after midnight. In the course of the talks, which went on until 2:30 a.m., Saudi officials made it clear that they were not going to lean on Assad; they felt that the Israeli-Lebanese agreement favored Jerusalem...
...Again voting 6 to 3, the Justices held that the traditional practice of having a chaplain open state legislative sessions with a prayer does not violate the First Amendment separation of church and state. Together with the court's decision two weeks ago approving tuition tax deductions for parents of parochial school children, the ruling was considered further evidence of the court's somewhat greater tolerance for Government support of religious activity...
Nebraska employed the Rev. Robert Palmer, a Presbyterian minister, to say an opening prayer at its state assembly sessions from 1965 to 1981. Four years ago, Ernest Chambers, a member of the state's unicameral legislature, went to court, arguing that the practice had the effect of establishing a state religion...
From the start, Oral Roberts believed that God worked in a miraculous way through his hands, which he fervently placed upon each ailing petitioner who stood in the famous prayer line at his meetings. His son, whose style is far less electric, rarely does any laying on of hands. Richard Roberts, a minister of the United Evangelical Church, simply asks those who are receiving healing to come into the aisles and give their reports to aides carrying microphones. He often announces specific cures as-he claims-they happen: "Someone is receiving a healing in the right ear, right...