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...Khan's longest flirtation was with death...
After fussing and feuding through their longest government-making crisis since World War II, Italy's politicians handed the job of putting together a Cabinet to a long-jawed lawyer from the mountain town of Ascoli Piceno. Dour and taciturn, Fernando Tambroni, 58, is a staunch conservative who has been in and out of Christian Democratic governments for seven years, most recently as the Finance Minister whose hardfisted fiscal policies have helped make the lira one of the world's soundest currencies. On his first try over three weeks ago, Tambroni offered a rightist Cabinet dependent...
World Come of Age. In the longest and best known of Bonhoeffer's books, The Cost of Discipleship (1937), he developed his idea of the essence of Christianity: the answer to Christ's call, "Follow me." Bonhoeffer's answer is neither a confession of faith nor the formulation of a doctrinal system, but instant, simple obedience in taking up the cross-"The disciple is a disciple only in so far as he shares his Lord's suffering and rejection and crucifixion." Grace is not cheap, but costly-"the treasure hidden in the field," for the sake...
...months of Betancourt's constitutional regime have been the longest period in Venezuela's turbulent 150 years in which the armed forces have been out of power. How would the brass now answer Castro Leon's call to renewed power...
...MIKE SOUCHAK, 32, has sweated down to his rock-hard playing weight (5 ft. 11 in., 198 Ibs.) as a crack end at Duke University, is one of golf's longest hitters. But "Souch" seems too nonchalant for the pro wars, wields a cold putter, and blunts the edge of his game by frequently packing up, leaving the circuit and going home to see his family...