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...background of this play is an international concordat, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1968. Despite banning further military atomic programs, a nowadays controversial article allowed for “peaceful uses” of nuclear technology. To many analysts’ concern, this Cold War brainchild has no way to differentiate responsible states from tyrannical failed ones. This year’s recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize is the United Nations (UN)-watchdog association that struggles to keep the treaty on stage, regardless of the loopholes...
...Sabena files for a "concordat," creditor protection...
...dictator set only a few conditions: the disbanding of the Catholic-dominated German Center Party and the defining of any Catholic criticism of Nazi political acts as "foreign interference." The 1933 concordat, claims Cornwell, "imposed a moral duty on Catholics to obey the Nazi rulers" and so neutered Germany's "last democratic focus." (Catholics made up one-third of the German population.) Pacelli, meanwhile, commenced his long silence on Jewish persecution...
...wife's death, McCall and his young daughter move to Italy, where he writes cookbooks and travel articles for American magazines. The job description would be more convincing if he didn't talk like a parody of artsy menu prose: "The marriage of rice and truffle exploded in silent concordat," or "the congruent personalities of the tomato and garlic with the happy green smile of basil...
When the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV decided to seek the pardon of Pope Gregory VII in 1077, he stood barefoot for three days in the snow outside the papal quarters in Canossa, Italy. Gorbachev's concordat with the church was no less significant in its way. But there was a crucial difference: as is so often the case with Gorbachev, he achieved his reconciliation without humiliation. As he had done before, the Soviet leader let the ongoing crisis of the Communist system serve as an opportunity to push his nation toward a broader vision of the future. "We need...