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...behalf, defending less the vagaries of his particular case than the issues of religious freedom the trial has raised. And figures as politically diverse as Joseph Lowrey, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Dr. Tim Lahaye, president of the Moral Majority of California, have joined to spearhead a group of ministers who have pledged to spend a week in jail with Reverend Moon. This unusual commitment indicates the depth of their belief that Moon's prosecution was a disguised persecution...
Whether or not such a watchdog group materializes, the mere fact that men once locked up as subversives are meeting and planning again is symbolic of the new mood. Though rebuilding the old Solidarity as a spearhead of resistance is out of the question, its ideals are being put forward by those seeking government reforms. As Walesa said in a speech he prepared for, but did not deliver at, last week's anniversary, "We signed the social agreements believing in the good intentions of the other party. We were painfully disappointed . . . What about union pluralism? What about freedom...
Cornell said the telescope is the center's response to a national need in astronomy to advance the study of unexplored regions and stellar occurrences using "sub-millimeter waves"--radiation with a wavelength of less than a millimeter. "This is the spearhead of a national drive in astrophysics to advance study in this area," he said...
...abandoned the openhanded policies that got him elected, Mitterrand needs time for his new economic rigueur to work, and he must somehow retain the support of his traditional constituents on the shop floor. Back in 1981, he stood in Longwy and pledged that the steel industry would be the "spearhead" of an industrial revival in France. Harsh reality has turned that promise to ashes, but his audience that day will not let him forget it. -By John Nielsen. Reported by Jordan Bonfante/Paris and Thomas A. Sanctm/Longwy
...showcased Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, a P.O.W. melodrama set in Java in 1942 starring David Bowie and two popular Japanese performers, Singer-Songwriter Ryuichi Sakamoto and the TV comic Takeshi. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is scheduled to open this fall in New York as the spearhead of an Oshima retrospective...