CORRESPONDENCE
Correspondence NORTHERN EXPOSURE Contrary to the lead sentence of Preston Jones’s review of North Country, there still are border disputes between the United States and our supposed friend Canada...
...The resolution noted that the maritime zones were important for fishing, transportation, and mining rights, and urged the president and secretary of state to get on with the opening of negotiations...
...most of the King James Bible is also Tyndale...
...But somehow the State Department has not seen fit to enter into serious negotiations with Canada for the boundaries with Alaska (both north and south), Washington, and Maine...
...For this he was rightly called the Apostle of England...
...Where two countries come within 400 miles of one another, they need to negotiate maritime boundaries...
...The United States has created maritime boundaries with Mexico, Venezuela, and even Cuba and Russia...
...Correspondence NORTHERN EXPOSURE Contrary to the lead sentence of Preston Jones’s review of North Country, there still are border disputes between the United States and our supposed friend Canada (“Ice Fishing in America,” Dec...
...Tyndale, a scholar of the Greek Bible and Hebrew, had translated the New Testament and the Pentateuch into a form of English that would live forever (he introduced the phrases “let there be light,” “salt of the earth,” “am I my brother’s keeper,” and the words “Jehovah,” “Passover,” and “scapegoat” to the language...
...H.L...
...CARL OLSON WASHINGTON, DC MORE WAS LESS In Michael Novak’s review of The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd, More is described as driving and severe, especially against Martin Luther and the Reformers (“A Good Life,” Dec...
...Of course, in 1529, Tyndale was considered a heretic, and his most fanatical and resolute enemy and critic was Sir Thomas More, who considered him a strong threat to the Church and its ordered structure...
...Tyndale overcame More’s unrelenting opposition by smuggling into England the first ever translations of the scriptures in English vernacular...
...Indeed, he was at his most vituperative and scatological in attacks on England’s foremost disciple of Luther, William Tyndale...
...So far, they have not gotten on with it...
...About 20 years ago, countries became entitled to 200 nautical miles off their coasts for fishery conservation zones, and about 10 years ago they became entitled to exclusive economic zones...
...PARKER SPARTANBURG, SC...
...In the case of Maine, a partial boundary was established in 1984 in a case before the International Court of Justice...
...The state of Alaska brought up the issue in a resolution introduced in 1998 by state representatives Al Vezey and Joe Ryan...
Vol. 4 • January 1999 • No. 18
