Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other side of the new schism, Irving Kristol, a founder of neoconservatism (and of National Interest), hears in some voices of the neocon chorus "echoes of the 1930s -- echoes of nativism and xenophobia, indifference (or worse) to Nazism and fascism, broad hints of anti-Semitism." He does not name names, but he clearly has in mind Buchanan, who has created a furor by insinuating that Jews fanned the flames of the gulf war. Kristol believes that in an increasingly interdependent world, "Fortress America" is simply not an option...
This week in Atlanta, Vestal will preside as thousands of dissident Baptists plot resistance to the fundamentalist trend. Chapman, for one, thinks the three-day conclave will launch something akin to a schism. At the same time, the fundamentalist leader is confident that few of the 38,000 S.B.C. congregations will join any eventual breakaway...
...Powers Resolution aimed to "insure that the collective judgment of both congress and the President" will figure into a decision to take the United States to war. But despite its intentions, the resolution has only widened the schism between the executive and legislative branches in determining war policy. And with Bush's unilateral navigation of the Persian Gulf crisis, Congress's effective influence in shaping foreign policy has reached its lowest point since Vietnam...
...area in which binds have already been loosened is the media. For days, the local press was not even allowed to report the invasion of Kuwait. But now they have the unprecedented freedom to blast Iraq, to record the schism in the Arab world and to report on the troubles the P.L.O. has created for itself by supporting Saddam. These liberties, however, have not been extended to reports on domestic affairs...
...absolute sham to think that neutrality can ever be attained again," said Estelle Rogers, who spearheaded the movement to save the pro-choice resolution. "This gives comfort to people who want to criminalize abortion." The only thing the two sides seemed to agree upon is that the schism will result in continued -- and acrimonious -- debate...