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...asserting individual desires. Little wants the American bishops to draw the line and insist that "the personal beliefs of priests, religious or laity which run contrary to the public faith of the church will not be tolerated in liturgy or instruction on Catholic doctrine." She recognizes that such a crackdown would cause "extraordinary public fragmentation of the Catholic community." However, the U.S. hierarchy's current policy of benign inaction, she contends, "benefits only those who have already rejected the public faith of the church and the authority of the bishops...
...school in 1978, Turow became anassistant U.S. attorney in Chicago. He spent eightyears as a deputy prosecutor and was involved inOperation Greylord, a widespread crackdown topurge the Illinois legal system of corruption andfraud...
...last week to stop the bloodshed by getting the Suchinda government's promise not to block amendments to the Thai constitution that would trim the soldiers' authority. And he appointed an emissary, former Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda, to negotiate with Suchinda an amnesty agreement for those responsible for the crackdown. This apparently eased military objections to Suchinda's ouster...
...fall of the Soviet Empire. Gorbachev describes this period with remarkable understatement as "particularly difficult." He will only admit that he should have "seized the moment" and invited democratic groups to join him in "some sort of round-table meetings." He also sheds no light on the January 1991 crackdown in the Baltic republics, which seriously tarnished his image abroad as a reformer. He notes in the vaguest terms that there was "an escalation in confrontation," and that "the threat of dictatorship was real...
...good news is that Panama's democratic leaders, boosted by $1 billion worth of U.S. aid, have launched a drug crackdown within their own borders. Panamanian President Guillermo Endara was sworn into office on a U.S. Army base just hours after the American invasion, an act that has come to symbolize the close relationship between the Bush Administration and Noriega's successor. According to dea officials, Endara's willingness to cooperate with international antidrug efforts is helping stanch the flow of cocaine through Panama...