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...earliest days of the church, of course. Christians were accepted as being Jews, and the Messianic Jews say they are trying to re-establish those bygone days. Ever since the two faiths divided, however, proselytism has been one of their touchiest disputes, exacerbated by Christian anti-Semitism and centuries of forced conversions. Most Jews fiercely resent all proselytizing, and many Christian denominations now oppose organized efforts to convert Jews...
...doughty Norwegians also have become embroiled in a series of diplomatic and territorial disputes with their giant neighbor. The touchiest is the issue of how to establish their areas of control in the Barents Sea and its continental shelf. Not only do the Soviets want to protect their strategic position around Murmansk, they also seek increased fishing rights and access to the potential oil and gas reserves in the 59,870 sq. mi. under dispute. After seven years of negotiations on the question, says a Norwegian diplomat, "we've got absolutely nowhere...
Malone must have forgotten his superiors' orders to shred each year what was probably the touchiest record of all. Thus, when he retired last year, he left behind in his safe a list of apparently illegal burglaries conducted by FBI agents in New York and other cities since 1971 in a desperate attempt to uncover information about Weatherman bombings and the fugitive bomb throwers. The list moved through FBI channels to the Justice Department and exploded last week like a bombshell...
Wilson's task force favors requirements, sources say--not adding them to the already existing structure but making them tighter. He acknowledges that this issue will be the touchiest in the review, but he believes a strong case--based on the assumption that "people come here because college is taught by people who know what is intellectually important, not just intellectually different"--can be made supporting the task force's recommendations. "We simply want to make the expectations that the Faculty has of students more specific," he says...
...noneconomic issues, Kissinger promised to negotiate with individual countries on a basis of "parity and dignity." That presumably includes one of the touchiest problems facing the U.S.: the Panama Canal (see box following page). Continuing his global effort to inspire confidence in America's reliability, Kissinger also pledged "to enforce our commitment to mutual security ... against those who would seek to threaten independence or export violence" -meaning the Cubans. In fact, it was Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Pérez who, in his private talks with Kissinger, raised the new "hemispheric reality" of Cuba's Angolan intervention...