Word: reform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Africa it is at the same time visibly practicing its own form of apartheid along the lines of gender and sexual orientation by limiting the role of women within the Church and by actively perpetuating anti-gay bigotry. Many other world religions, including Unitarians, Quakers, some Protestant denominations and reform Jewish groups are beginning to respect and honor the sexual diversity among people. Now is the time for the Catholic Church to follow suit. Warren Blumenfeld
...empt a growing congressional clamor for reform of the Pentagon, President Reagan last week endorsed a significant reorganization of the Pentagon's high command. The package he accepted was proposed by a blue-ribbon panel led by former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, which was set up in the wake of scandals over military procurement. The most important recommendations: to strengthen the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the ten worldwide theater commanders. By enhancing their authority, the Packard panel hoped to overcome the interservice rivalry that has impeded military planning by the Joint Chiefs and execution...
...Reagan ready to order the two carriers in the Mediterranean to reform a battle group and head for stations off the Libyan coast, Pentagon sources said yesterday...
...must take many others into account before reaching a decision. We must see whether there remain any less drastic policies to achieve reform without risking excess violence and revolution. There probably...
...Blacks simply want a show of support, then there are less risky ways to do this, like gradually tightening economic sanctions. These are policies which maintain U.S. leverage and do not dangerously destabilize the country. If Blacks want a U.S. policy which exerts greater pressure on whites to reform, then there are again less drastic and risky policies than total disinvestment...