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...establishment clause to the states. The court declared neither federal nor local governments "can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another." In addition, no tax money should support "any religious activities or institutions." In 1971 the court developed a new threefold test: laws must avoid "excessive government entanglement with religion," have a "principal" effect "that neither advances nor inhibits religion," and have a "secular" purpose. Last week the high court decided that this test is not violated by a law that permits the Mormon Church to discriminate religiously to fill nonreligious jobs...
Reagan announced that U.S. funds for training and scholarship programs for the Caribbean will be increased threefold. In addition, he said a new program is being initiated to guarantee access to the U.S. market for Caribbean-produced clothing made from cloth woven and cut in the United States...
...base for a war of conquest in the Caribbean Basin. Nicaragua is supporting subversion in Honduras and uses our territory for the traffic in arms. We are also seeing a disproportionate growth in the Sandinista armed forces. In a period of three years, they have grown more than threefold [to 27,000]. I do not believe they are increasing their military just for parade purposes. When you think about the fact that the Nicaraguan economy is in as deplorable a situation as ours, you wonder where the money for the armed forces came from...
...copulation and death (all offstage). This is not the only hint of T.S. Eliot's influence on Harold Pinter, since a good many of the lines have the weary, dying fall of Eliot's poems. Always in Pinter, the dialogue is the drama, and it follows a threefold pattern. The source of the first is his fondness for vaudeville, a predilection he shares with Samuel Beckett, a playwright Pinter vastly admires. The second is the inquisitorial mode: a character is grilled, mocked and menaced. The third is the puncturing of rote responses to reveal emotional vacuity. When Lamb...
...does not oppose their policies. Says Lucker: "Clearly he cannot be saying that we shouldn't be taking stands on moral issues that have political implications. Look at his own statements on Poland." A Vatican official describes the Pope's views on El Salvador to be threefold: to prevent bloodshed, encourage social reform and avoid the emergence of "another Cuba." Neither the bishops nor the Reagan Administration would disagree with those goals; the question is how to attain them...