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...remarks in which Reagan asserted that religion and politics are "necessarily related" and characterized opponents of his school-prayer amendment as "intolerant of religion," the issue did not subside last week. Indeed, it intensified and widened, involving politicians and pundits across the nation, including a full range of religious spokesmen. But most of all, it provided a theme that for once found Reagan backpedaling to preserve his credibility with mainstream Americans, while Mondale was able to take the offensive with a thoughtful and hard-hitting attack...
...when we enter into a debate like the one we are now having, there is a special responsibility for restraint, for civility, for affirming the right of the other person to have a position that differs from yours and to avoid accusing people of being in bad faith. Religious spokesmen have a responsibility to remember that overheating the conversation is not going to contribute to what any of us want. But an elected official has the most sensitive kind of responsibility for nurturing the diversity that is the most remarkable thing about American religious life...
Advertisements from 33 Dunster St., for example which offer a free glass of wine with dinner, will not get through the Summer School's review process. HSA spokesmen said they had distributed this type of flyer as recently as last summer...
...Fund spokesmen insist that their unpopular conditions are necessary to restore economic health and replenish the IMF's revolving pool of resources. "The fund does not impose any measures," says an official in Washington. "Reality does. Ideally, a country forms its own policy and comes to consensus itself on what needs to be done, and then the fund supports that. Many of the success cases are those in which that has happened." There have indeed been successes over the years. Two notable case histories...
...well and in the temple lodgings, troops uncovered cache after cache of arms and ammunition, including a grenade factory that had been operated by Bhindranwale's followers. But the gold-domed temple proper, which sits in the center of the complex, was unmarked by the battle. Government spokesmen stressed that the army had gone to great efforts to preserve the sanctuary, even taking more casualties than would have been normal in order to preserve it. Many Sikhs, however, were unimpressed. "It is the same as telling a Catholic," said one Sikh at the temple, "that St. Peter...