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...Government's deal with the Sicilian Mafia in 1943, allowing the Mafiosi to regain their positions of power in return for help during the Allied invasion, sickens me. It is worse than the Mafia's barbaric custom of chopping up bodies...
...militarization of space. But Shultz was determined to keep his lines of communication open, primarily through Soviet Ambassador to Washington Anatoli Dobrynin and the U.S. envoy to Moscow, Arthur Hartman. Finally, State Department officials hit upon the idea of getting Reagan and Gromyko together by reviving an old custom: extending an invitation to the Soviet Foreign Minister during his visit to the U.N. Reagan enthusiastically approved the plan. Says a senior State Department official: "The really important thing was that this was something Ronald Reagan really wanted...
...last week, to set down his views on the subject in an open letter to the Harvard community. Not since the early 1970s have college campuses had to confront the specter of angry hecklers drowning out or scaring away invited speakers, but with the return of the custom, President Bok thought it time to explain why the thing is important. But though this is a good, workman-like job, Bok's discourse leaves a sour taste--and the feeling that he has expended a lot of hot air at the expenses of moral leadership...
...diplomats, encouraged by the Vienna overture, scrambled to find a new opening. In mid-August, they suggested to Reagan that he revive the custom of inviting the Soviet Foreign Minister to Washington during the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting. (The tradition lapsed in 1979, when the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan soured relations with the U.S.) Reagan agreed to the visit and authorized the State Department to invite Gromyko to meet with Shultz in New York on Sept. 26 and call at the White House two days later. In late August the Soviets accepted. The two countries decided jointly that...
...long been his custom, the Pope had strong words to offer on secular issues. At Ste. Anne de Beaupré, he declared that "every people should fashion its own economic and social development," tacit encouragement for activist native groups haggling with the Canadian government in Ottawa. At a wildly enthusiastic youth rally in Montreal's Olympic Stadium, hundreds of dancers arrayed themselves before the Pope in the form of a dove. He urged the festive audience, "Have the courage to resist the dealers in deception who make you pay dearly for a moment of 'artificial paradise...