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Former Special Ambassador to the Middle East Sol Linowitz says that a hardline, get-tough attitude is not the way to move Menachem Begin [June 28]. I say it is the only way. I see him not as "the thundering prophet of the Old Testament," but as a madman determined to exterminate the poor, homeless Palestinian nation and willing to risk the security of the world doit...
...first time since the Septuagint, there is a generally, recognized Jewish committee translation from Hebrew into the contemporary usage of another language: English. This new Jewish Bible (what Christians term the Old Testament) has been titled the Holy Scriptures. Completed last month, it is the latest of several major new English Bibles, but all the others were Christian undertakings, beginning with the Revised Standard Version, published in 1952 by the National Council of Churches...
Begin is a man of many moods, with a wide swing of emotions. He can be very gentle, quiet, sentimental. Yet he can also act like a thundering prophet out of the Old Testament. He is a man who walks in his own history. His family was wiped out in the Holocaust, and that hangs over everything he thinks about...
...further ecumenism among all Christian groups. And the Second Vatican Council, called into session by Pope John XXIII in 1962, began to issue decrees that moved the Catholic Church closer to an ecumenical spirit. "There was a man sent from God," said Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I, quoting the New Testament, "and his name was John...
...commercial opens with a bespectacled attorney The TV commercial opens with a bespectacled attorney reading a last will and testament. Incongruously present are the not so dear departed, hugely enjoying themselves as the lawyer tells the grieving heirs: "To Ronald Reagan we leave a recession, inflation at 12.4% and rising, gas prices sky high." Chortling merrily at the dubious bequest are-could it be? - Democrats Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill...