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...soon won his brother's parliamentary seat. Named a general secretary of the Congress (I) Party in February 1983, he made a reputation for himself as a quiet-spoken reformer determined to bring new life and leadership to a largely corrupt and ineffectual machine, leading some Indians to refer to him as Mr. Clean...
...establish a perfect kingdom. A number of Old and New Testament passages describe the prelude to this event in terms of angelic battle and earthly turmoil. One of these vivid prophecies, the only one that names Armageddon,* is Revelation 16. Most scholars believe that Revelation and other prophecies refer to such epochal events as Jesus' death and resurrection and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in A.D. 70. Others see them as symbolic depictions of the spiritual struggle between good and evil. Liberal theologians tend to discount them altogether...
...unions, Blacks, and gays. A publisher sympathetic to Helms recently ran an article in his conservative paper The Leader with the headline JIM HUNT IS SISSY, PRISSY, GIRLISH AND EFFEMINATE. Helms repudiated the article, which went on to claim that Hunt had a homosexual lover, but his aides still refer to opposition staffers as "queers". Further, Helms has used their television debates to bait Hunt about his leadership qualities and toughness under pressure--circling around the touchy issue that has plagued both Walter Mondale and George Bush-manhood...
PREPARE FOR launch, American public; the term "space-age" may not refer to the future any longer. Space travel has advanced so significantly over the last decade that the even the concept of the colonization of space has moved off the movie screen and onto the drawing board. After a surge in the 1960s and subsequent curtailment, space technology now appears ready to move into...
...book Frank's second sense of regaining his family's lost estate (the recapturing of it on canvas) is the most important and lasting achievement, yet one feels no sense of triumph or joy. The book's title does not refer to actual land, but rather to the vast number of paintings that Frank has produced of his family's lost estate, discovered and displayed after his death. He has achieved great acclaim as a painter, but at what cost? He says...