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However, Dukakis has indicated that he is unlikely to make an endorsement this Spring. In that case "Dukakis delegates," as they are called by political observers, would throw a large element of uncertainty into the race because their allegiance would be unclear...
...attack against a Saudi added a new and troubling element to the violent Lebanese equation. The Syrians, who occupy the area of the Bekaa Valley that serves as a base for the pro-Iranian fanatics, have allowed the extremists fairly free rein. But Saudi Arabia bankrolls Syria to the tune of $1 billion a year, and Saudi diplomats have frequently acted as mediators in intra-Arab disputes. In tacit recognition of their status, Saudi diplomats had been exempt from the terror that has made victims of both Arabs and non-Arabs in Beirut. As the week passed, there...
...though business is starting to pick up, the political situation could pose a threat to the European economy. The peace movements, Carli maintained, have created doubts about Western Europe's security that are affecting its economy. Said he: "The possible 'Finlandization' of Europe has introduced an element of uncertainty. If this uncertainty is not removed, I see difficulties getting investments of the size needed to create jobs, no matter what economic policy we follow." -By Frederick Painton
Objective consideration of modern phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must be taken into account...
That inconsistency can be resolved by assigning the two imperatives, justice and forgiveness, to different functional levels, to that of Caesar and that of God. Justice is a social question, while forgiveness introduces a transcendent element: love. Weighing the injunction in the Sermon on the Mount to turn the other cheek, Martin Luther concluded that an individual ought to obey the command, but a government should not. There are two orders, that of the law and that of the Gospel. One forgives in one's heart, in the sight of God, as the Pope did, but the criminal still...