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...civil war in West Beirut had gone to the eastern part of the city to try and start a new life. They said it would be safer there. Now black smoke hangs over it like a cloud smelling of death. Shells land every three minutes. In the Phalangist stronghold of Ain Rumanneh, every house has been hit and many leveled. One man who ran upstairs during a lull to salvage an old family heirloom had his legs blown off. The guns keep firing, the Phalange radio says hundreds are homeless, and it's hard to watch and not feel...
...draig Murphy, a towering Roman Catholic priest, and the Rev. Terence Rodgers, Rector of the Protestant Church of Ireland, greet families who have come to visit their dead. It is "Friendship Sunday"-one of four during the year when Protestants can be guaranteed safe conduct into this Catholic stronghold. The two men find discernible improvement in attitudes in Belfast, while reluctantly acknowledging that a new outbreak of violence has left nine dead in the preceding ten days. "A lot of it isn't political any more," observed Rodgers. "It is sheer gangsterism." Murphy concurs: "It only takes...
...added, "The American farmer and small businessman is the last stronghold of free enterprise in the world today." As far as he is concerned, the American Agricultural Movement is trying not only to keep him in business, but to uphold his America, and the free-enterprise system, as well...
Christmas, on the other hand, has always maintained itself as a traditionalist's stronghold. Society may have dictated I am too old to visit the Macy's Santa, but my mind hasn't quite accepted the fact. I'm perfectly willing to take any stray sibling or neighborhood child, (in my geriatric neighborhood, quite a find) to see the Big Guy. At one point, I could even catalogue which department store Santa gave the best goodies...
Bryant claims that the homosexuals have pressured the networks into blacklisting her from talk shows-an unlikely charge, which the networks deny. She did, after all, appear on the Today show. Here and there, notably in the gay rights stronghold of California, campaigns have been attempted to keep her off the air. Though some religious stations in Texas have received increasing numbers of calls to let her sing out, no record company has bought the recent single that she recorded on her own. Its title: There's Nothing Like the Love Between a Woman...