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Even so, the President was unwilling to let slip the possibility that a U.S. hostage might be set free. Though Kelly was held back, ambassador Djerejian hastily returned to Damascus from Bonn, where he had been attending a meeting of U.S. envoys. Angered by the U.S. refusal to dispatch Kelly, the IJLP issued a new statement, this time accompanied by a photograph of Polhill. The group announced that it had decided to "postpone this operation until the picture is cleared." Perhaps to dispel speculation that it had gone soft, it also threatened to attack airports and airlines involved in Jewish...
...summarizing of the church's central teachings on faith and morals in a single document. Four years in the making, a secret 434-page draft of the new Catechism for the Universal Church was sent last December to the world's 4,000 bishops. The prelates were instructed to dispatch their comments on the text to the Vatican by May 31, after which work will begin on the final version. Since then there has been widespread grumbling over both the document's old- fashioned conservatism and the rush-rush deadline for responding to it. Last week leaders...
...Columbus the citizenry prepared a triumph for a good fighter who knows how to be hard in the ring and human outside it. In Houston, Foreman said he was ready to dispatch all comers -- including Don King. And in Philadelphia, Stallone was shooting Rocky V. He must feel about his boxing movies the way John le Carre does about cold-war novels after the communist thaw: What do I do to top real life...
...indefinitely postponed the dispatch of an aircraft-carrier group to search for drug smugglers in the waters off Colombia after the government in Bogota made clear the ships would not be welcome...
...Soviet domestic politics seem more complicated than ever, so does U.S. policy toward the U.S.S.R. Washington's endorsement last week of the Kremlin's decision to dispatch troops to stop the bloody fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijanis would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Now that the Soviet military threat seems less menacing, other issues are coming to the fore, including the disputes among the various nationalities that make up the Soviet Union. The past few weeks have demonstrated just how tangled and explosive these conflicts are and how difficult it will be for the U.S. to decide...