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...requiring textbooks to include religious creation theory, but adopted a compromise measure, ordering that textbooks should not reflect a "scientismic" bias?i.e., the assumption that the scientific approach is the only one possible. Some fundamentalists are still not satisfied. The Creation Research Society, whose members subscribe to a literal, six-day view of creation, is currently buttonholing local school-board members to get them to include the teaching of creation theory...
...Minnesota Governor's son with a Ph.D. in classics. Preus' crackdown as president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod led to the seminary walkout and the current threat of church wide schism. His personal view of Genesis includes a global flood in the Noah story and a six-day creation (though he leaves open to question how long the "days" were and how old the earth is). He believes literally in the Adam and Eve story and the entire New Testament, including accounts like Jesus' walking on water. Because of the way Jesus referred to Jonah's sojourn...
...than Damascus. Toward that end, Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon will visit Washington next week. One difficulty is that Israel so far appears unwilling to agree to a key Egyptian point in these talks: the return of the Abu Rudeis oilfields, which were captured by Israeli forces in the Six-Day War and have been pumping out oil for Israel ever since...
After Israeli independence, Rabin vowed that he would remain hi the army to ensure that the country would never again have to fight from such a position of weakness. He gained international fame as the brilliant and victorious chief of staff during the Six-Day War. He retired from the army with the rank of lieutenant general in 1968, when he was appointed Ambassador...
...Fatah and its sister fedayeen groups have carried on a relentless campaign of military action and terror against Israel, both in the Middle East and elsewhere. Since the Six-Day War, when the guerrillas undertook an anti-Israel campaign that the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan were too devastated to mount, the warfare has resulted in the deaths of at least 800 Israelis and the wounding of 2,350. In savage, eye-for-eye retribution, the Israelis have returned terror for terror?usually in the form of attacks on commando strongholds and Palestinian camps in Lebanon and Syria...