Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Convinced that Premier Diem, with his accent on austere morality, is going to be in power for a while, Saigon's powerful hoodlum sect, the Binh Xuyen, agreed meekly last week to abandon its golden empire of sin, at least for the time being. "We ourselves propose the suppression of gambling dens," proclaimed the Binh Xuyen's General Le Van Vien to an astonished populace. "If we did run gambling in the past, it was only because we wanted to give the newly born state of Viet Nam an indispensable complement of money in taxes for its budget...
...only sin, said Dedijer, had been to keep associating with "my old friend" Djilas, though he never had entirely agreed with Djilas' criticisms of the party hierarchy. "There is a struggle on the lower echelon," said Dedijer, "but there is no fight on the top level for control. It would be nonsense to say that anything can challenge Tito's position. However, a man like Kardelj, whom I've always regarded as a true democrat, is being maneuvered by party discipline into a position that will put my blood on his hands...
...Heart of the Matter. Graham Greene's novel, a passionate choral on the themes of sin and salvation, is rearranged into something more like Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Trevor Howard and Maria Schell are superb as the lovers (TIME...
...good ones in Branka Djonovica Street-was without heat, and word went around Belgrade that it soon would be vacant. Summoned back from a sanitarium where he goes frequently for treatment of his old war wounds, Dedijer learned that he was being purged from government and party for the sin of "diversionism." In Communist eyes, Dedijer's waywardness began a year ago. When the regime's No. 3 Communist, Milovan Djilas, was put on trial for publishing articles which publicly criticized both the loose morals and the political rigidity of the party's top leaders, only...
...church would wholly approve if the law was no longer content to accept a single act of adultery as a sufficient ground." Other British prelates have gone on record in the same vein lately. Unfaithfulness, said the Archbishop of York, "should never be treated as the one unforgivable sin," and Bishop J.W.C. Wand of London said in a sermon: "It is a pernicious idea that if one partner has been unfaithful, then the home must be destroyed...