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Since Speaker Tip O'Neill blocked passage of the immigration-reform bill, his Hispanic vote will now increase by thousands...
...from the amphibious assault ship Guam roared into Pearls airport, the island's only functioning airstrip. Thirty-six minutes later, hundreds of U.S. Rangers, the Army's elite special forces, parachuted onto the barricaded, uncompleted 10,000-ft. strip at Point Salines on Grenada's southeastern tip. They had been dispatched from a staging airfield in Barbados, just 160 miles, or 45 minutes, away. Grenada, the once sleepy tourist haven, barely 80 miles off Venezuela in the Caribbean's Windward Islands, was now fully awake-and frightened...
...Executive Office Building to the White House basement and up a back stairs. Solemnly, the President laid out his plans and his reasoning, much as he would later do on TV. But as the President finished his explanation, the five leaders sat in hushed silence. Finally House Speaker Tip O'Neill broke it. "God bless you, Mr. President," he said. "And good luck." Tip gently patted Reagan's arm in a rare moment of rapport...
...stakes high. There is no pretense of neutral peace keeping, and domestic op position to policy in the isthmus is specific persistent. "I believe there is a sharp difference between what the Administration is doing in Lebanon and what it is trying to do in Nicaragua," pronounced House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "In Lebanon, it is supporting a government. In Nicaragua, it is trying to overthrow one. The United States should not be engaged militarily in trying to overthrow other governments...
...enormous presence of the Wittenberg rebel, the sheer force of his personality, still broods over all Christendom, not just Lutheranism. Although Luther declared that the Roman Pontiffs were the "Antichrist," today's Pope, in an anniversary tip of the zucchetto, mildly speaks of Luther as "the reformer." Ecumenical-minded Catholic theologians have come to rank Luther in importance with Augustine and Aquinas. "No one who came after Luther could match him," says Father Peter Manns, a Catholic theologian in Mainz. "On the question of truth, Luther is a lifesaver for Christians." While Western Protestants still express embarrassment over Luther...