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...More than that, it was a setback for a nation in dire need of a victory - a defeat that has driven France a little deeper into one of its periodic bouts of self-doubt. "I think I can say without chauvinism that we had the best bid," said Jean-Francois Legaret, mayor of the central 1st Arrondissement of Paris. "So since we didn't win, we have to ask ourselves about the weight of everything else that contributed to our loss. Part of it, surely, is the whole idea about us being 'Old Europe,' part...
...Vatican is especially wary of "Africanization," a movement in which primitive fetishes turn up in church art and indigenous theologians speculate on blending ancestor worship with the Mass. Although the church is expanding, it suffers a dire shortage of African priests: for every new man ordained, there are 10,000 baptisms. The Pope performed two priestly ordination services, underscoring the importance of recruitment. In addition, numerous Catholics cannot receive Communion because of polygamous or tribal marriages that are not recognized by the church...
Only a few days earlier, Soviet spokesmen were talking as though there would be no "later on." They seemed to be predicting dire consequences, perhaps even a breaking off of arms negotiations, if the U.S. failed to give ground on SDI. Arbatov and other Soviets were portraying the summit as perhaps a last chance for an offense-defense compromise, an agreement for deep cuts in missiles in return for a curtailment of Star Wars. That there is now talk of long roads ahead, despite the fact that neither side budged on SDI, is in itself significant, since deadlines have...
Government ministers fanned out across Spain and gave warning of dire consequences if the people voted no. Foreign Minister Francisco Fernández Ordóñez appealed to Spanish pride by saying that Spain would have to pull out of the European Community, which it had just joined on Jan. 1, or be a "second-rate" partner. Another official hinted that Barcelona would lose its bid for the 1992 Olympics and that plans for a World's Fair in Seville would be scuttled. González, in a last, powerful address that mentioned the Atlantic Alliance only twice and peace 40 times...
Most Fundamentalists think believers will be taken to heaven in a "rapture" and escape calamities preceding Jesus Christ's Second Coming. But the Identity movement tells believers they must endure these dire events and prepare by taking military and survival training and stockpiling weapons and food. John Harrell of Louisville, Ill., wealthy head of the Christian Patriots Defense League, who teaches that "Caucasians are the most proven, most capable" of racial groups, recommends that every family of followers "have a 12-gauge shotgun, a .22 rifle and at least 500 rounds of ammunition...