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...road itself is a war museum, a graveyard of vehicles used in past battles. Silhouetted against the sky is an Arab horseman. His stallion rears, pawing the air, and he is off in a cloud of dust toward the horizon. "That could well be a rebel," says our driver...
Marcinkus, who also heads the Vatican bank, remains under a cloud because of the bank's dealings with scandal-ridden Banco Ambrosiano. John Paul also made a major change in removing himself as direct ruler of the Vatican City government in order to stress his role as Catholicism's spiritual leader. The new administrator: Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, who is second only to the Pope in the Vatican hierarchy...
...real danger in American foreign policy has never been an unwillingness to use force, but rather a feeling that all problems have military solutions. Jebsen tries to cloud his arguments in a tone of reasonableness, but we should be wary of a man who faults someone for opposing the deployment of American troops in Lebanon. Jebsen suggests that El Salvador is different from Vietnam because it has only 5 million people, not 40 million, implying that we could "win" in El Salvador. This kind of thinking led the Reagan administration to invade the tiny island of Grenada. It is unfortunate...
...death toll from a devastating fire last Feb. 25 in the shantytown-or favela-of Vila Soco, in the southern Brazilian town of Cubatao, was simply too low. Only 86 bodies were recovered after a gasoline-fed blaze exploded into a giant fireball that looked like an atomic mushroom cloud. Yet some 9,000 people lived in Vila SocÓ, a patchwork of wooden shacks built on stilts over a marshy swamp. Coroner Carlos Affonso Figueiredo found it strange that no bodies of children under five years of age had been discovered among the ashes and in the hot rubble...
Sagan used the findings of the 1971 "Mariner 9" space mission to Mars to illustrate the after effects of nuclear war. Particles in the Martian atmosphere stirred up by dust storms formed a cloud over the surface of the planet, he said, raising the upper atmospheric temperature while lowering surface temperatures and creating an artificial winter...