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These opponents of recognition have, however, misapplied the First Amendment, which prohibits government actions that foster the establishment of a state religion. Diplomatic exchanges with the Vatican are not an endorsement of Roman Catholicism, and they do not require the United States to do anything more than receive an ambassador. Vatican City is a sovereign nation and John Paul its head of state independent of his role as the spiritual leader of the world's Roman Catholics. In fact, the United States has long sent an ambassador to the Court of St. James, despite English monarchs' dual roles as head...
...would be dispensed through a Central American development organization that would draw up regional plans. It would be chaired by an American but include representatives of all seven Central American nations.* In effect, this would be the Marshall Plan for Central America long advocated by Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a senior adviser to the commission. Economic aid, the panel said, should be made conditional on the recipients' agreeing to democratic reforms that would make the benefits available to poor as well as rich...
Ronald Reagan chose William Wilson, who has been the presidential representative to the Vatican since 1981. to serve as the new ambassador. Wilson, 69, is a California real estate developer and charter member of Reagan's kitchen cabinet of personal advisers. Archbishop Pio Laghi, 61, the apostolic delegate in Washington, will become Wilson's counterpart, the papal pronuncio. One of the Holy See's ablest diplomats, he previously served in Argentina, where he assisted the Vatican's mediation of the Beagle Channel dispute between Argentina and Chile...
...tireless quest for realism, Hollywood has already used the war-torn Middle East as a backdrop for such films as Hanna K. starring Jill Clayburgh, and the recently completed The Ambassador, starring Robert Mitchum and Rock Hudson. Now comes The Little Drummer Girl, which was shot on the barren hills of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Based on John le Carré's best-selling novel, the movie stars Diane Keaton, 38, as Charlie, an impressionable English actress who is recruited by Israeli intelligence for a double-agent mission against Palestinian terrorists. Keaton trained with a bazooka...
RECOVERING. W. Averell Harriman, 92, former Governor of New York and U.S. Ambassador to London and Moscow; from a broken knee suffered when the Democratic Party's elder statesman was knocked over by a wave while walking on the beach; at his house in Barbados...