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Kerry warns that the United States is heading for "another Vietnam" in Central America, and so he opposes the use of American troops in the region and support for the contras fighting the Nicaraguan government. He is also an ardent advocate of the nuclear freeze, and he says if the United States and the Soviet Union wait to sign an agreement, the arms race will likely escalate further...
...politically divisive figure in the presidential campaign, as many Democrats feared and Republicans hoped last summer. Jackson, however, has been careful to avoid provocative gestures. In June he disavowed Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan's various venomous remarks, and Jackson has not appeared with his former ardent supporter since last spring. Farrakhan still delivers his disturbing messages at meetings and on the radio, but most now sink into well-deserved obscurity. In addition, Jackson offered a moving apology in his Democratic Convention speech to those, including Jews, whom he had offended. Thus while Jackson is still deeply mistrusted...
Even the most ardent proponents of a conspiracy theory have assumed until now that the only would-be assassin in St. Peter's Square on May 13, 1981, was Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish terrorist apprehended seconds after the shooting. But when Martella was ordered to re-open the investigation into the assassination attempt in November 1981, there was already some uncertainty about whether two or three shots had been fired at the Pontiff. Confusion also surrounded a photograph, taken by a tourist immediately after the shooting, that shows a young man running from the square. That man, according...
ELAINE Bauer gives the role of Giselle a touching vulnerability and modesty. She is childishly attracted to her lordly, ardent lover--alternately fearfully pulling out of his embrace or melting gently into a kiss. The poignant intensity of her performance comes from just this guileless quality. Bauer is not afraid to display Giselle's uncertainty, her human side. This heightens the sense of the tragedy of her death...
...title is ironic: the unwanted plant is the author. All his life, Conrad Detrez, 48, has been inflamed by credos and causes. The Belgian youth became an ardent mystic and prepared for the monastic life at the Roman Catholic University of Louvain in the 1950s. A few years later he was a lay missionary in Brazil. There he was appalled by the misery of the masses he had come to inspire with the message of Christ. Soon he had become a follower of Marx and Che Guevara and a guerrilla fighting with the Communists. Eventually he was tried and convicted...