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...Saudi Arabia, including "surveillance aircraft." Within a few days the Israeli as well as the U.S. press reported that these planes likely would be AWACS. Even so, when Secretary of State Alexander Haig visited Israel in early April, his hosts expressed objections but down-played them. Reagan aides now profess surprise at the fury of the Israeli response to the formal announcement. Says one: "Whatever is driving the spirited Israeli opposition is not clear...
...Moncure, N.C. Ethridge's Louisville stewardship was distinguished by expanded, gimmick-free news coverage, enlivened writing and makeup, and an editorial page that spoke out strongly against such targets as poverty and racism, the latter of which he once described as "a complete humiliation of all people who profess any faith in democracy...
...profess to be a sociobiologist, but I admit to a certain involvement in the discipline. Having read some of the literature and spoken with a few sociobiologists, it was with interest that I turned to your piece in the Crimson...
Protestantism may not be quite as pallid as all that. One denomination in the study, the Southern Baptist Convention, is expanding, perhaps because it chooses ministers who ardently profess their biblical beliefs. Besides that, the book's conclusions are based on statistical averages, which tend to obscure the variety of vital congregations within all denominations. The survey, moreover, was taken in the mid-1970s and has only now managed to get into print. Meanwhile, according to a Gallup survey for Christianity Today magazine, younger ministers are becoming increasingly firm-and firmly religious-in their beliefs...
...tries to come from behind, Carter will face real problems across the country, even in the South, where he got 40% of his electoral votes in 1976. While strategists like Hamilton Jordan profess confidence about holding the South, they concede that more time and money will have to be spent this year than in 1976 to protect this base. As the President's analysts now see it, Carter only narrowly leads in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Reagan is ahead in Texas and Florida...