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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?
- </hdr><body>
- <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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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