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...back to Rome after a one-day visit to northern Canada, the Pope could count both achievements and disappointments. The crowds, as always, had been moved, almost visibly uplifted, by his appearances. Still, the numbers along his motorcade routes were often surprisingly small, thinned perhaps by fears of the crush and heavy security, or the it's-on-TV-anyway mentality; even on his visit to Detroit, only 30,000 turned out in the largely Polish community of Hamtramck. The Pontiff had made special contact for the first time with varied groups of U.S. Catholics -- Hispanics, American Indians, AIDS sufferers...
Yohe also knows how to spread around the wealth of his passes. In the Columbia crush, seven Harvard players--including tight end Kent Lucas, who made four receptions for 77 yards--caught passes...
...current crush of foreign buyers offers more opportunities than threats -- and, in any event, the $4.5 trillion U.S. economy's best insulation against invasion remains its sheer size. Says Theodore Moran, a professor of international business diplomacy at Georgetown University: "We are not going to have our economy taken over by foreigners unless it continues to decline for 50 or 60 years." That holds true even though a couple of Asian shoppers, South Korea and Taiwan, have barely begun to make strides in the U.S. buyout market. Yet as foreigners continue to rush in, new American properties are constantly being...
...Iraqis have lost their lives in the fighting. Tehran's hopes for victory soared in January, when its troops pushed within a few miles of Basra, Iraq's second largest city. In the past few months, however, Iran has made little headway in its drive to crush Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Indeed, the Iraqis have succeeded in reclaiming much of their lost ground...
...would lead Moscow to renew its expansionist policies argue that, despite Gorbachev's rhetoric, the Soviet quest for security is essentially aggressive. The Russian word for security, bezopasnost, translates literally as "absence of danger." Moscow's way of achieving that state has often been to identify a danger, then crush it. As a largely landlocked nation with a history of being invaded, Russia developed an expansionist desire to control large territories. Over the years, there has been nothing as offensive as Russia on the defensive. Witness the postwar subjugation of Eastern Europe and the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan...