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Unfortunately, expunging the word from the executive vocabulary won't remove the danger of Carter's Republican-like policies putting more people out of work. Having replaced "depression," which conjures up memories of the 1930s, with the more innocuous and scientific-sounding "recession," Carter is still trying to preach away the danger implied by the meaning of both words. Rejecting the "myth that we must choose endlessly between inflation and recession," Carter in his State of the Union address assured the American people that "together, we build the foundation for a strong economy with lower inflation without contriving either...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: Blind Faith | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

Southward near Kandahar, young teachers arrived in one district to preach Marxism. Again some were killed, and again the army went in, this time driving villagers into the frigid mountains. Neighboring Baluchi tribesmen, like the Pathans, have fled across the Pakistani border and are allied with separatist movements there. Some Western analysts have suggested that the Soviets may now want to take advantage of these movements to spearhead trouble in Pakistan and also in Iran, where some Baluchis have settled. For the moment, however, the Taraki regime's ineptitude in dealing with the tribesmen seems to have checked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Red Flag over a Mountain Cauldron | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...spent the next ten years in his father's New York art gallery, but the onslaught of World War I sent him back to Germany. He fell under Hitler's spell after listening to him preach a beer hall sermon that Hanfy said ended "in an orgasm of words. I agreed with 95 per cent of what he said" he added...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Nazi Who Loved Harvard... | 12/12/1978 | See Source »

Praise be to Spokane's Roman Catholic Bishop Bernard J. Topel [Nov. 13] for his voluntary poverty, one of the fundamentals of Christian doctrine. Unfortunately, he is one of a tiny minority aware of the unwritten maxim, "You can tell but cannot teach, unless you practice what you preach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Man of the Year | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

Jones briefly attended Indiana University in Bloomington, but left for Indianapolis to preach and later form his own church. He went to night school at Butler University there, and ten years later he finally won a degree in education. At matriculation, he listed his religion as Unitarian, and for a time linked himself to the Methodists, but the first church he founded, called the Christian Assembly of God, had no affiliations. It was in a poor neighborhood, and he won worshipers by distributing free food and helping people find jobs. He raised money by importing monkeys and selling them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Messiah from the Midwest | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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