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Such are the tensions that animate The Color of Blood, Brian Moore's 16th novel. The setting here is the rather '60s-ish cold-war zone of Central Europe, an anonymously rainy, grainy place of black limousines and border checkpoints. But Moore's decidedly up-to-the-minute subject, invoking issues as topical as liberation theology and the Solidarity movement in Poland, is % the way in which a religious leader in a political world separates good causes from mixed motives. As Moore's protagonist, Cardinal Stephen Bem, asks an aide, "Are we filling the churches because we love God more...
After a few days in Tennessee, my mother and I took the final leg of the journey 10 years in the making. I was driving the car down Route 64 toward the Tennessee border, but missed the first turn into Corinth. But the back roads were somewhere in my memory, and I found myself near the public library...
Meanwhile the peace cavalcade proceeded in fits and starts. Contra leaders gathered in Guatemala City to examine their own future. In an unexpected gesture of goodwill, they released 80 Sandinista prisoners of war at an airfield in Costa Rica, 30 miles from the Nicaraguan border. Several days earlier, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra pardoned 16 Central Americans, none of them Nicaraguans, who had been imprisoned for rebel activity...
...both the U.S. and England, Arias, 46, based his presidential campaign last year on the theme "Peace with Arias." On the day of his inauguration, he told U.S. Ambassador Lewis Tambs that the contras could no longer use a U.S.-built airstrip in northern Costa Rica, near the Nicaraguan border. When the order was ignored, Arias became more determined. A year later he unveiled a peace proposal that became the foundation for the accord adopted in Guatemala City. "Reagan believes that our plan has loopholes, and I accept that it might," Arias says. "No human work is perfect...
...scare last week when its contract with the Canadian Auto Workers union ran out. Some 10,000 employees in Chrysler's four plants in Ontario went on strike, stopping production of such hot-selling models as the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager vans. The impact rippled across the border, idling 1,400 workers at Chrysler's plant in Belvidere, Ill., where most production was shut down for lack of Canadian-made parts, and 500 additional employees at a stamping plant operated by the firm in Warren, Mich. The Canadian union ended its walkout after four days, when Chrysler agreed...