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<text id=89TT1696>
<title>
July 03, 1989: American Notes:Texas
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
July 03, 1989 Great Ball Of Fire:Angry Sun
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 23
American Notes
TEXAS
Antiwar or Antichrist?
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<p> When antiwar activists look at an inverted Y inside a
circle, they see a symbol for peace. But some school officials
in Pasadena, Texas, detect something satanic: an upside-down
broken cross that signifies the defeat of Christianity. This
week they will vote on a new student dress code that would
allow principals to outlaw the sign.
</p>
<p> School administrators learned the symbol's devilish
significance at a seminar on cults conducted last spring at the
University of Houston. (The peace sign was devised by British
pacifists who combined the semaphore signs for N and D, standing
for nuclear disarmament.) The proposed ban has drawn some wry
comments from students. Quipped a twelve-year-old: "If they ban
peace symbols, they'll have to ban basic geometry because of all
its lines and circles."
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</body></article>
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