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...procedures for enforcing discipline have changed the situation. One of Canada's best-known soldiers, retired Major General Lewis Mackenzie, who served as chief of U.N. peacekeeping forces in the former Yugoslavia in 1992, claimed that the Airborne had been reformed. ``The hazing video,'' he maintained, ``is a historical document.'' But Scott Taylor, publisher of Esprit de Corps, the monthly magazine that uncovered the Somalia videotape, is not so sure. ``The level of depravity can't even be described,'' he says. ``This was not just a few misguided individuals...
What Zedillo announced in Mexico City last week was an accord among the country's four largest political parties that will ultimately loosen the hold on power of his Institutional Revolutionary Party, not only in Chiapas but also throughout the country. The document promises electoral reforms at both federal and state levels to put an end to corrupt campaign practices and fraudulent vote counts. It will also allow the election of Mexico City's mayor, until now chosen by the President. ``Mexico was the ugly duckling of democracy,'' exulted Interior Minister Esteban Moctezuma, as he waited for his car after...
...September. The U.N. population conference convened in Cairo, with representatives from 185 nations and the Holy See in attendance. On the table was a 113-page plan calling on governments to commit $17 billion annually by the year 2000 to curb global population growth. About 90% of the draft document had been approved in advance by the participants, but the remaining 10% contained some bombshells John Paul had seen coming. The most explosive was Paragraph 8.25, which owed its inclusion in part to a March 16 directive from the Clinton Administration to all U.S. embassies; it stated that "the United...
...bloc in line and struck up alliances with Islamic nations opposed to abortion. In the end, the Pope won. The Cairo conference inserted an explicit statement that "in no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning"; in return the Vatican gave partial consent to the document...
...write nonsense to the Pope when you know that, no matter what, he's going to take time out to write back to you. The responses aren't long, and they aren't always handwritten. Sometimes he'll scribble his response on the margin of a speech or some document, and Sister Eufrosina -- a Polish nun who's been with him for years -- is very good at making out what he's written and typing it up." She adds, "I think of him as a man who needs to stay in touch with his friends because he is so terribly...