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Another distinction involves church affiliations. Evangelicals often coexist amicably with liberals within mainline denominations, such as Methodist and Presbyterian groups, that hold membership in the National Council of Churches. These bodies tolerate a variety of beliefs. All true Fundamentalists, strictly speaking, belong to congregations or denominations that root out any hint of liberalism. As many as 10 million members worship in wholeheartedly Fundamentalist churches.* There are several times as many Evangelicals, both inside and outside the mainline groups. The largest Evangelical body, the 14.4 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, is now facing a powerful takeover campaign by its Fundamentalist wing...
...Colson, the Nixon aide who served seven months in federal prison for his role in the Watergate scandal, is a born-again Christian and evangelist who firmly upholds the Bible's inerrancy. He argues that believers "need to understand that the real problems of our society are at their root moral and spiritual. Institutions and politicians are limited in what they...
...country, the old ways. They had status in their homelands simply because they were men. They had hours to spend with their cronies, and no one ever expected them to clean the house. Most of the women surveyed do not want to go back, and they work to root themselves in the U.S. The price is high, but the reward is something they would find hard to achieve at home: a sense of their own autonomy. Says one successful Cuban- American businesswoman in Miami, Maria Elena Torano Pantin, "I became my own person. Not my parents' person, not my kids...
Alternatively, the U.S. could go to the presumed root of the trouble: Iran. Carrier-based U.S. warplanes could, for instance, bomb an Iranian air base, an action that the Carter Administration considered taking if Iran had begun to kill the hostages seized at the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. Or the planes could hit the oil-refining and shipping facilities on Kharg Island; that would damage the Iranian economy but cause minimum loss of life...
Meanwhile, the administration has deftly managed to deflect community attention away from the root problem of this spring's unrest: the University's investments. We hope the CRR will quickly be abandoned, that the University will discipline the students fairly, and that we can resume our fight to convince Harvard that divestment is the best political and moral recourse...