Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Serpico was convinced that police were the true guardians of society, a secular breed of Jesuits. His one burning hope was to become a good cop; he loved the vigor and ingenuity which the work requires, but above all he wanted to serve the people of his precincts. Even when he discovered that the force was pitted with corruption--that almost the entire plainclothes division raked in protection money from gambling and whorehouses--he refused to let that recognition sink him. He never quit: he took his allegations before a series of Lindsay aides and deputy commissioners and finally broke...
...Meir, whose party is both secular and socialist, would agree only to set up a committee to study the issue. But she promised to keep three Cabinet seats open - just in case the N.R.P. comes around to her view and gives her the majority she needs to govern effectively. Even if the Religious Party stays out, it will probably vote along with Labor on most major issues...
...state, composed of some land now occupied by Israel: the West Bank of the Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the Hemmeh region near Lake Tiberias. Opposing that plan are the hard-line commando elements, who will accept nothing less than the dissolution of Israel and the creation of a secular state that would cover all of pre-1947 Palestine. Some of them are talking of Viet Nam-style guerrilla action until that end is achieved. In this camp is George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which has condemned the Geneva conference as "disgraceful," as well...
Eternal Pariahs. Some Christians make a distinction between Judaism as a religion or ethic, which they defend, and the secular state of Israel, which they reject or severely criticize. Most Jews eye the distinction suspiciously...
...Israelis could be persuaded to go along with it-would jeopardize the Palestinians' long-range historic goals. George Habash, leader of the P.F.L.P., remains firmly opposed to negotiation: he still insists on nothing less than the total recovery of what was once Palestine and the creation of a secular, democratic state there for both Jews and Arabs. Palestinian moderates argue, on the other hand, that the movement must scale down its goals if it is to achieve anything at the conference table...