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...Tehran have been chronically short of such staples as butter, rice and lamb. Even economic hardship, however, can serve the regime's interests. Authorities promised one man who was desperate to obtain a TV set that he could have a place on the waiting list -- provided he attend three prayer sessions and three progovernment demonstrations...
...avowed candidate, but he acts like one. Just before the Michigan primary he hit nine cities in that state in three days, besides jetting to Anaheim, Calif., and Dallas for fund-raising events. Though he still heavily stresses social issues such as abortion and school prayer, he has moved beyond them to take stands on all manner of subjects. In foreign affairs, he has revived Ronald Reagan's long-disused description of the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" and predicts its demise "in our lifetime...
Talk about the high expectations of new parents. On the morning that Eva Burrows was born in an Australian mining town, her father, a Salvation Army officer, was conducting a worship service. Within minutes the father returned to his home, held the newborn baby aloft and uttered a prayer dedicating her to the glory of God and the salvation of the world. "It was rather a tall order for a little baby," says Burrows with a grin...
...Army parlance, committed lay members are "soldiers," prayer meetings are "knee drills," and officers and soldiers take a pledge known as the Articles of War. Salva...
...ridiculed the "bewildering Catch-22 logic" behind the 1985 Aguilar vs. Felton decision forbidding public school teachers to instruct in parochial schools. He remarked that the court's generally high level of neutrality between what he called religion and irreligion (e.g., barring prayer in public schools) would have struck the framers of the Constitution as "bizarre...