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...that the church rethink its ban on Communion for divorced Catholics who remarry. Pope John Paul helped establish the synod's forthright mood with an opening homily that avoided touching on specific issues; it seemed clear to Vatican observers that the Pope was presenting the synod participants with a blank page on which to express their thoughts freely. Godfried Cardinal Danneels of Belgium, who was assigned to summarize official reports for the meeting, told journalists that the Pope "said nothing about the work of the coming synod, gave no guidelines for what we were...
...forced to make Spain the first country to withdraw totally from the 16-member alliance. But when the votes were counted, the pro-NATO group had won by a surprisingly large margin. The final tally showed 52.5% for continued membership, 39.8% for withdrawal, and the rest of the ballots blank or invalid...
...play description of the images, could not contain his excitement. "It's obvious that there is structure on this nucleus," he exclaimed. "Mountains, hills, craters--incredible detail!" Suddenly the image froze and then, only two seconds before the spacecraft's closest approach to the comet, the screens went blank...
...problem began three years ago, after a major reform of Medicare. Under its earlier provisions, the plan, which covers the health-care costs of citizens who are over age 65 or disabled, paid for all "reasonable" hospital expenses. By the late '70s, however, this blank-check approach had led to a dizzying 17% annual increase in Medicare's hospitalization costs and warnings that the system would be bankrupt...
Each of the major countries had its own reasons to protest. The French, in addition to being worried about their own eight hostages in the Middle East, had an irresistible Gaullist urge to preserve their military independence. "No blank checks," a French official said of Paris' refusal to go along with the U.S. action. Concurred a French army colonel: "We will not be the Americans' valet d'armes--their orderly or spear carrier." The Italians have an enduringly bad con-science about Mussolini's colonial war against Libya and, to be sure, are concerned about 4,000 Italians living there...