Word: silents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israel was free to follow in the path of the blind and the silent, but courageously embraced her moral code in pursuit of restored honor. Incurring no world credit but instead, shallow condemnations, the country rests with cleared conscience, but the memory of the guilt and the commitment to just statehood prevail...
Already during the Mass in San José, the Pope gleaned hints of the difficulties he would face the next day in Nicaragua, where both the church and its followers are deeply divided over the policies of a revolutionary government. A group of 300 Nicaraguan exiles kept a silent vigil on a grassy knoll, holding up banners denouncing the Sandinista regime. Said one: IN NICARAGUA RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION EXISTS! Another, referring to harassment of early Christians in Rome, read: NO CATACOMBS IN NICARAGUA! Though Nicaragua's Catholic leaders supported the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, moderate clerics have now grown wary...
...sermon to 500,000 in Managua's vast Plaza 19 de Julio, the Pope left little doubt about where he stood in the church-state dispute. As a poster gallery of Nicaraguan revolutionary heroes kept silent watch, John Paul exhorted priests to obey their bishops and to preserve the unity of the church. It was a clear show of support for Archbishop Obando y Bravo. In tones that must have echoed strangely from the same platform Fidel Castro had once used to praise the Sandinistas, the Pope condemned the "popular church," a grassroots movement in Nicaragua committed to revolution...
...risky gamble in holding national elections six months after the collapse of the coalition, led by Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, had paid off. Despite the existence of a widespread and vocal peace and protest movement, spearheaded by the Greens, Kohl had always maintained that there was a "silent majority" in the country in favor of his pro-NATO, free-enterprise policies...
...Chorus Line, and also the one in which the artists finally share their professional anxiety, comes with the song, "What I Did for Love." Paul (Wayne Meledandis) an ex-drag queen humiliated by his past, pulls a ligament in his knee and is carried off. The remaining dancers fall silent in shock: Paul's accident forces them to consider the instability of their career...