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...only a very few trading partners. That the Israelis turned to the other "black sheep" if the world community. South Africa and Taiwan, is not surprising. Yet Mr. Kurzman tells us that Israel should break off relations with South Africa, since her practical need for friends should not out-weigh her morality...
Complete books can and have been written defending, Esperanto against the prejudices it encounters: but without attempting to summarize all the arguments or to formulate comprehensively my own. I may mention two things that to me seem to weigh heavily in its favor. First is the self-evident excellence of the idea of a universal auxiliary language. Second is the demonstrated fitness of Esperanto to serve in that role. I assume that humanists at Harvard can appreciate the first, and that an investigation of the second would lead them at least to sympathy for the movement, if not to active...
...state of voters' wallets. Right now, they are robust. The economy is enjoying strong increases in production, jobs and incomes, and inflation is at an eleven-year low. Deficits are a problem to which the President cannot afford to appear indifferent, but his advisers doubt that they will weigh decisively with many voters, unless the red ink threatens to choke off the recovery or spur a new round of inflation. Says Ed Rollins, director of the Reagan-Bush '84 Committee: "I don't think they can beat us on economic issues...
That encounter was not, however, meant to administer the Catholic sacrament of penance. Mehmet Ali Agca's education in his own faith, Islam, apparently is spotty, but he probably has a general awareness of its teaching that God will weigh each person's deeds on the Day of Judgment. A practicing Muslim invokes the Almighty's mercy during the five prescribed daily prayer sessions. But for John Paul, penance and absolution have very precise meanings. Penance is one of the Catholic Church's seven sacraments. Baptized Catholics, before receiving Communion, are required to confess contritely...
...star, not just play, for the Philadelphia Eagles, the team he most admired as a boy. But a chance meeting with Eagles General Manager Pete Retzlaff made that seem unpromising. "How tall are you?" Retzlaff asked. "Six foot," he replied. "You look 5-10. How much do you weigh?" "One-eighty." "You look 165." Never mind; plenty of other National Football League scouts were attentive. When Theismann was not drafted until the fourth round, he was staggered. Even then, the claimant was Miami, which already employed Bob Griese. Theismann went to Canada...