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...ranting is a form of verbal fanaticism, and other cultures often do it better. The Middle East today is to ranting what Elizabethan England was to theater: the cradle of geniuses. Every faction and tribe has its Shakespeare of denunciation, from the Ayatullah on down. Communist bloc countries have bureaucratically institutionalized ranting. The East German government once issued a list of approved terms of abuse for speakers describing the British: "paralytic sycophants, effete betrayers of humanity, carrion-eating servile imitators...
...Hussein's long-standing insistence on an international peace conference as a forum for solving the Middle East's problems. The Israeli Labor Party leader's offer was speedily denounced back home by hard-line members of the other major partner in his national unity government, the Likud bloc...
Peres' U.N. performance did not please some of his Cabinet colleagues from the Likud bloc. Several of the dissidents, including Finance Minister Yitzhak Moda'i, charged that the Peres proposals had not been approved, or even discussed, by the Cabinet before the Prime Minister left for Vienna, Washington and New York City on Oct. 15. Deputy Prime Minister David Levy accused Peres of "dangerous deviations from the agreed policy of this government." Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the Likud bloc, was more circumspect. At a two-hour luncheon meeting with European Community foreign ministers in Luxembourg, he said only...
...that while mentioning all six of the offending charges, stopped short of making a formal apology. It was apparently enough to persuade Peres to back off. At 11:59 p.m. Thursday, word went out that the shaky union between Peres' left-of-center Labor Party and the rightist Likud bloc, to which Sharon belongs, had survived...
...media. Rivera was one of just a handful of fellow Cardinals in attendance today at St. Peter's. He is also on most Vatican watchers' short-lists of "papabili" or potential popes. But it remains to be seen whether Rivera could muster key support from the 11-strong bloc of U.S. Cardinals after his remarks about the scandal. Most of the American Cardinals know very well that the sex abuse crisis was fortunately exposed-not caused!-by the American media (most notably the Pulitzer Prize winning team at the Boston Globe). Still, Rivera could always hope for at least...