Word: schisms
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...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...
Paradoxically, the willingness to scale back First Amendment permissiveness comes when the divisions in American society seem to be at a 25-year low. In the 1960s the battle between flag wavers and flag burners represented a traumatic schism over the Vietnam War and national morality in general. Even in those incendiary times, there was never a serious effort to pass a constitutional amendment. Now the issue has become, so to speak, less burning. With the ideological battles at home in abeyance and challenges from abroad less severe, it would seem that the nation would feel more secure about...
...plans no purges, it will systematically install inerrantists as moderates retire. The seminary in North Carolina has already been torn apart over this effort, and the one in Kentucky will doubtless be next. Meanwhile, desperate anti-Fundamentalis ts are labeling the rival force as power mad and "demonic." A schism does not appear imminent, but as the conflict moves to the state and local level, anti-Fundamentalists may carry out a de facto split, diverting money from the national denomination into their own causes...