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Pope John Paul II is correct: Christ was no political leader [Feb. 12], but there is no doubt that his message to us encourages us to seek political and social change. Liberation theology did not die with Pope John Paul's visit to Mexico, just as Christ's message to "set the captive free" is not dead...
Progress seemed close at hand when Carter took office and pointedly made López Portillo his first state visitor. The U.S. President welcomed the meeting as an opportunity "to correct some of the long-standing economic problems of our two nations." Instead, under pressure from labor unions to stem illegal immigration, Carter and Congress beefed up border patrols and made employers of illegal aliens subject to fines. The U.S. urged Mexico to crack down on drug smuggling, but then became dismayed when young Americans ended up in Mexican jails...
...prevailing view in Washington, as one Administration policymaker put it, was that "there's little we can do at this stage." The judgment is undoubtedly correct, but the seeming inability of the U.S. to influence events in Iran could have a serious impact on Washington's relations with other states in the Middle East's crescent of crisis. Ever since Mos cow moved to make Ethiopia its chief client on the Horn of Africa, the Saudis have complained about the waning of U.S. influence in the area. Says a State Department analyst: "The Saudis are taking...
...West African coast, the British astronomer Arthur Eddington found deflections in starlight that almost matched Einstein's prediction. Later, when Einstein was asked what he would have concluded if no bending had been detected, he replied: "Then I would have been sorry for the dear Lord?the theory is correct...
...zone press helped us overall--it tired Princeton and forced turnovers--but we kept getting caught with a guy wide open under the basket," McLaughlin said. "We tried to correct that at halftime and we did improve our press. I guess we were just overanxious," he added...