Word: reaffirm
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...praying for a cold winter so he can remind us how warm we would be with a fresh supply of Arab oil in our furnaces. But resting our hopes for an energy solution on OPEC is illusory and will invite further blackmail from the cartel. The U.S. should reaffirm its commitment to Israel and ignore Connally's easy answer...
...John Paul. One is this year's formal Vatican condemnation of writings by French Theologian Jacques Pohier on grounds that among other "evident errors," he denied the bodily resurrection of Christ. The Vatican is also quietly investigating iconoclastic Dutch Theologian Edward Schilebeeckx. The new "apostolic constitution" intended to reaffirm controls over faculties that grant degrees under Vatican authority, is also troubling. This last decree affects departments in only eight U.S. institutions, but could foreshadow church-wide rules in a forthcoming code of canon law. The document requires that the Vatican approve or disapprove the orthodoxy of tenured professors...
...there persist in America two vestigial strains of anti-Catholicism. One is the old and somewhat fading nativist variety -the sort that led the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod in the past year to reaffirm its opinion that the Pope is the Antichrist. The second strain, considerably more disturbing be cause it is so much more "respectable," is the bigotry practiced by certain intellectuals, liberals, humanists and elitists...
...Kuwaitis, with U.S. encouragement, are trying to find a new formula that would both reaffirm the U.N.'s landmark Resolution 242 of 1967, which implicitly affirms Israel's right to exist, and in addition endorse the Palestinians' legitimate political rights. The Arabs, and the Administration as well, hope that such a formulation might at last allow the P.L.O. to at least tacitly recognize Israel as a bona fide state. This in turn would enable Washington to drop its longstanding boycott of the P.L.O. and open a direct dialogue with it. The Administration's first goal then...
...victims of the Nazi Holocaust. As former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg wept openly, the President declared that it was fitting to "remember the terrible price paid for bigotry and hatred and also the terrible price paid for indifference and for silence." Carter said that he had vowed "to reaffirm our unshakable commitment that such an event will never recur on this earth again." The only way to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, he said, was to "harness the outrage of our memories to banish all human oppression from the world...