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Though not drawing back from a quick and blunt attack on the "scourge of abortion," which is legal in Britain, the Pope invoked the need for a "renewed search for Christian unity" and spoke directly to Catholics who are married to non-Catholics. Mixed marriages create "special difficulties," he said, but "you live in your marriage the hopes and difficulties of the path to Christian unity." It was an arresting juxtaposition of elements; no one in the papal party, or in the British hierarchy, had ever before heard the Pontiff put the matter quite this...
...both sides seemed to block the road to peaceful, settlement from the beginning. On the Argentine side, the military junta's own secretive, authoritarian-leadership style blinded it to international realities and locked it into a position from which retreat was almost impossible. The junta disregarded the blunt warning from Secretary of State Haig that "U.S. friendship would be at risk" if the Argentines attacked. According to Washington analysts, the original decision to invade was made by a handful of top-ranking officers without even consulting the corps commanders who would have to carry on the fighting. Suddenly saddled...
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Alexander Haig was even more blunt: "We consider SALT II to be dead and have so informed the Soviets." (The treaty has not actually been formally rejected, however, and is still technically before the Senate.) But one high Administration official indicated that the U.S. may find some method of accepting SALT II without formally ratifying it. Internal discussions are under way, he said, about working out some "mutual restraints," which would be similar to the SALT I and SALT II restrictions now being informally observed, for both sides to honor...
...spends hours turning back and forth between the word processor and a desk that once belonged to his father. He refers to one of the remarkable diaries he kept so doggedly through his four years. Each evening, no matter how tired he was, he dictated his feelings-often blunt and troubled-into a tape recorder. Six thousand pages of transcripts, a historian's treasure, now fill dozens of black books on shelves that surround his desk...