Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threat of attack has caused some Vietnamese in Saigon to turn for solace to sorcery or religion. On Easter Sunday, only a few people attended services at St. Christopher's, the little Protestant church next to the U.S. embassy, and those who did were tense and anxious. In one pew, a young Vietnamese girl and her brother, both refugees and no older than 14, sat alone. She wept openly, and the boy held her hand throughout the service. "Amid great stress and suffering," intoned the Anglican priest, "we come to a celebration of life-baptism." Then he sprinkled holy...
...priest who was part of that flight but who now lives in Paris, claims that some superstitious Catholic peasants were told that Our Lady of Fatima expected the faithful to go south and that, "if they did not, they would be turning their back on her and on their religion." Some of the fears that motivated the earlier exodus proved to be well founded. In the land reform and political re-education programs launched by Hanoi after 1954, some 15,000 Northerners were killed, according to conservative estimates...
...think even the governorship is a pain in the ass." Politics is obviously not the Governor's overriding interest, and for that reason he may prove to be less than a skilled politician. Still in the seminary in many ways, he argues that "government isn't a religion. It shouldn't be treated as such. It's not God; it's humans, fallible people, feathering their nest most of the time...
...some faulty predictions and policy misjudgments. He returned from a Middle East trip last summer predicting that an oil auction by Saudi Arabia would break petroleum prices; high Saudi officials had told Simon that those events would take place and he believed them. At home Simon preached "the oldtime religion" of tight money and budget cutting to fight inflation. Last summer he opposed any substantial easing of the Federal Reserve's strangling credit squeeze and listed for President Ford possible spending cuts totaling $20 billion or more (Simon said they were intended for "illustrative purposes...
...though dependent on the mother, is a separate organism, argued Leon Kass, a physician and professor of "bioethics" at Georgetown University. The fetus is also "human," at least in being "of human origin and in the process of becoming a human being -if nothing interferes." Paul Ramsey, professor of religion at Princeton University, says in his new book, The Ethics of Fetal Research (Yale University Press; $2.95), that the fetus is "live enough not to be dead, not yet mature enough to be an infant, yet a human being enough to deserve protection...