Word: christians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Young also warned the Palestinians that their aims cannot be achieved through terrorism, his admonition to the Israelis signified a rising concern in Washington that Israel's air and artillery attacks are jeopardizing the delicate peace process. For four months Israel and its Christian Lebanese allies have relentlessly bombarded real or imagined bastions of Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon in what some U.S. officials openly describe as a "scorched earth strategy." In recent weeks these attacks have increased sharply, killing large numbers of Lebanese civilians, destroying hundreds of civilian homes, and in the process further tarnishing Israel...
...private fact-finding reminiscent of Andy Young: an unauthorized meeting with P.L.O. sympathizers in Gaza. Unlike Young, Dayan kept his job. The Israelis say their aims in southern Lebanon are threefold: to force the Palestinian guerrillas to leave the area, to help the enclave of Lebanese Christians and Shi'ites survive in a buffer zone along the border, and to strengthen Israel's bargaining position in any future negotiations with Syria concerning the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Israelis claim that Palestinian terrorists attempted 27 raids on Israeli territory from Lebanon in the past four months, and that...
...pulping plant. In Xiamen (Amoy), a similar burning took place but with a sinister twist: Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. workers were forced to kneel by the books until their cheeks and hands blistered from the fire. All over China, church buildings were pillaged, closed down or turned into warehouses. Chinese Christians were often tortured or killed if they did not repudiate their beliefs. At the height of the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution, the last eight Western Christian workers in China, Roman Catholic nuns from a school for diplomats' children in Peking, were hounded across the border into Hong Kong...
...years ago. Since then, the death of Mao Tse-tung and a political convulsion have brought to power a more outward looking regime led by Hua Guofeng and Deng Xiaoping. Last week China seemed intent on showing the rest of the world a newer, more tolerant face toward Christianity-and other religions as well. As official Chinese delegates to the Third Assembly of the World Conference on Religion and Peace in Princeton, N.J., eight Chinese religious leaders arrived in the U.S. for the ten-day meeting. The group included Buddhists, Muslims and Christians, among them Anglican Bishop Ding Guangxun...
...lost its will to perpetuate itself. Says British Author Malcolm Muggeridge: "What will make historians laugh at us is how we express our decadence in terms of freedom and humanism. Western society suffers from a largely unconscious collective death wish." Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who shares with Muggeridge an austere Christian mysticism, has been similarly appalled by Western materialism...