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Many of them were taught to seek peace and pursue it, and to remember the poor and afflicted, the sick and the old. In short, religious issues in this campaign may work for the President in some places but work against him in others. Lately, this fact seems to have had some influ- ence on the President and Senator Laxalt. In between their attacks on their opponents, they have been talking of unity and peace. "The greatest chal- lenge of all," the President said in his ac- ceptance speech in Dal- las, "is to reduce the risk of nuclear war ... For the sake of our children and the safety of this earth, we ask the Soviets — who have walked out of our negotiations — to join us in reducing and, yes, ridding the earth of this awful threat." And his friend Mr. Laxalt, introducing him in Dallas, added this personal note: "I know how desperately he wants peace . . . From the very depths of his soul, Ronald Reagan wants to reach an ac- cord with the Soviets that will allow us to share this planet peace- fully. If I didn't believe so, I would not be will- ing to entrust the future of my children and grandchildren to his leadership." So while the vicious slanders of the cam- paign go on, the larger themes of all the reli- gions are beginning to be heard. The Republi- cans have dropped their talk about the Soviet "evil empire," not 43e- cause they've changed their minds but because their religious appeal has been too narrow and too dangerous. According to John Buckley, the deputy press secretary for the Reagan-Bush cam- paign, there are no plans for future letters to the clergy. Sometimes when you reach out and write somebody, even if you're a 'leader under God's authority,' you get in trouble. Why this lengthy quota- tion? Especially to emphasize that there are important is- sues confronting the Ameri- can people and that they must - vs not be ignored or their impor- tance obscured by the injection of religion into politics. In a sense, the Reston analysis is a lesson for political office- seekers and voters alike to learn that there are serious is- sues to be accounted for and to be faced forthright. In the process, there is the importance in what Reston wrote in renewing faith in an - American ideal adhered to as Separation and that none in politics dare to pose as "lead- ers under God's authority." The die has been cast on the subject. Reagan has been heard. Mondale will be heard. The American people will judge. Their voices will surely reach every Congressional district in the land. Now there is need for a measure of Con- gressional courage to re- - pudiate whatever has been fanfared among tens of thousands of Christian minis- ters. The additional, hoped-for anticipation is that the most expressive rejection of an ef- fort to infuse religion into poli- tics and to utilize religious benefits for political gains will come from churches and chur- chpeople. That's how the American spirit will predomi- nate. NEWS Death sentences are commuted Tel Aviv (JTA) — Two Israeli Arabs condemned to death for the murder of a Jewish hitchhiker in 1980 had their sentences corn- muted to life imprisonment this week. A five judge military court ;% of appeals in Lod ruled that the sentences imposed on Maher and Karim Yunis, both 26, should be amended because the death pen- alty has never been carried out in Israel — with the sole exception of Adolf Eichmann. The prisoners, who are related and lived in Ara and Arara, vil- lages north of Hadera, were con- victed of murdering Avraham Bromberg after they picked him up hitchhiking. They were es- corted from the courtroom Tues- day shouting that they were inno- cent.