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...Middle Eastern government or a Palestinian leader, or even a group of Arab intellectuals utter a word of contrition--to say nothing of words like Rabin's--about any of the scores of incidents in which Jewish innocents were cut down no less brutally than the men at prayer in Hebron, and cut down on orders from some official high command at that? The answer is: never...
...grass-roots campaign to slip prayer back into school is aimed at a chink in the Supreme Court's rulings: the court has never expressly stated whether voluntary student prayers are permissible. A mail campaign spearheaded by TV evangelist and onetime presidential candidate Pat Robertson has sent every high school principal and attorney general in the nation literature urging that such prayers be allowed as an expression of "free speech" and "equal access to the marketplace of ideas." (His organization does not advocate student prayers on school-wide intercoms, the practice that got Mississippi principal Bishop Knox suspended...
Anxiety over a breakdown in the nation's moral values is fueling much state legislative activity as well. Georgia just enacted a law to permit moments of silence. Student-led prayers have been approved in Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Virginia. Similar legislation is under consideration in at least six more states. Congress has caught the fever this year as well. Both the Senate and House passed measures that would strip funds from schools that forbid "voluntary" prayer. Final action on prayer legislation is expected this spring...
...American Civil Liberties Union has vowed to challenge the constitutionality of these new laws. Representative Don Edwards, a California Democrat, argues that student prayer is not really voluntary and amounts to "manipulation by churches and parents." He points to numerous lower-court decisions against such praying...
Although Loyola is on spring break, approximately 600 people attended a prayer services was held for Romanski which was attended by Next Monday, when Loyola is back in session, there will be more services for Romanski...