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...Texas, where Government bailouts are unpopular, Mondale will downplay the selling points he used so well in the East, like his helping to rescue Chrysler from bankruptcy and advocating trade barriers to protect industry. Instead, say his aides, Mondale will preach "prairie populism" and stress that he worries about "real people, real jobs and real pocketbooks." He will particularly target large areas of poverty like the Rio Grande Valley, where unemployment...
...move first against Nicaragua; indeed, it gave the Sandinistas $75 million in economic aid the year after the 1979 overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, which the U.S. implicitly encouraged. But Nicaragua joined with the Soviets and Cubans to preach Marxist-Leninist revolution through the region. Even the Democratic-controlled House Intelligence Committee found last year that the Salvadoran "insurgency depends for its lifeblood-arms, ammunition, financing, logistics and command-and-con-trol facilities-upon outside assistance from Nicaragua and Cuba." The crucial question is how far the Administration intends to go with its support of the contras. Its original...
...cannot pretend and do not wish to preach to my fellow members, as their conceptions of responsibility are solely up to them...
...Christians trace their heritage directly to Jesus. People from the coastal cities of Sidon and Tyre went to Galilee to hear Christ preach, and on at least one occasion Jesus visited what is now southern Lebanon. Later the Apostle Paul spent a week in Tyre, where the first Christian church is believed to have been established. By the 5th century, the region was solidly Christian. So it remained until 200 years later, when Muslim invaders conquered much of the Middle East and North Africa. Many Christian communities along the coast converted to Islam, but the mountains remained a Christian redoubt...
John Paul engaged in diplomacy of an entirely different sort last week, becoming the first Pope to preach in a Lutheran church and the first to join in any Protestant worship in Italy. The place was the severe, white stone Christuskirche (Christ Church), which mainly serves the German diplomatic and business community. A group of Lutherans had approached John Paul when he visited a nearby Catholic parish in 1982 and asked, "Won't you come and visit our church too?" The Pope later raised the subject with the local pastor, Christoph Meyer...