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...effort to ease church-state tensions, Vatican Spokesman Father Romeo Panciroli deplored the "political interpretations" of events that were "exclusively religious and moral." Before leaving Czestochowa, John Paul also pointedly offered a prayer "for those who wield authority on Polish soil." But he seemed determined to buttress the church's role as the sole mediator between the state and the Polish people. In a special meeting of the Polish episcopate, he urged the church hierarchy to "respond to the need to hear the truth, which is so acute in society." John Paul provided plenty of examples on the remaining...
...valuable is Mantarov's account? The Bulgarian agent may or may not have told Mantarov the truth; Mantarov, in turn, may have distorted what he was told. The story breaks little new ground, but it does buttress previous reports. It has been speculated, for example, that the young man who had been spotted running from St. Peter's Square with a gun in his hand was there not to help Agca but to shoot him as soon as the Turk finished his deadly assignment...
...Shultz and Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas O. Enders have insisted that U.S. policy has not changed since 1981, when former Secretary of State Alexander Haig first cast the Salvadoran struggle as an East-West conflict. The chief elements of U.S. strategy have been to buttress the Salvadoran government with guns, money and American military advisers (who currently number around 37), while encouraging political and economic reforms as well as an improvement in El Salvador's doleful human rights record. The U.S., say Administration officials, has always favored talks with the guerrillas, if they will...
...help of nearly $30 billion in Arab economic aid over the past two years. In anticipation of a renewed Iranian military offensive after the rainy season ends next month, the Iraqi regime has mounted a broad diplomatic effort to improve Baghdad's ties with the West and buttress its position in the Arab world. Last week Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz flew to Paris on a multiple mission. He met with Massoud Rajavi, the exiled leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the leftist Iranian guerrilla organization that seeks to overthrow Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Tehran government. Later...
...Schwartz's recent editorial, "Tolerance Comes Out," made several good points about current relations between Harvard, its students, and its gay community. However, she arrives at some questionable conclusions. As she rightly suggests, gays must maintain a high level of visibility in order to buttress the political gains made on campus in past years. Unfortunately, the editorial does not take into account the vital connection between "stabilizing and ...enriching the gay community" and maintaining a strongly visible presence on campus. Our concern with the strength of the gay community does not mean the GLSA is somehow going underground this year...