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...chorus of boos at the Cairo meeting from other countries' delegates who felt they'd already made big concessions to the Church. The Pakistani-drafted text, which expressed reservations over abortion, found favor with Iran and other Islamic allies of the Vatican's anti-abortion stance. It also drew no objections from Catholic countries. But the Holy See was unwilling to endorse a document with phrases such as "reproductive health" and "fertility regulation," which it considers veiled references to abortion...
...shoulder more responsibility for contraception, child rearing and even housework. Says Nafis Sadik, executive director of the U.N. Population Fund and the guiding force behind the conference: "There is a strong focus on gender equality and empowering women to control their lives, especially their reproductive lives." This approach drew immediate objections from advocates of traditional family planning, who were worried that a feminist agenda would divert money away from proven birth- control methods...
Such language drew early and fervent protests from the Vatican, which sees "control their reproductive lives" as a code phrase calling not only for access to artificial birth-control methods but also for abortion on demand. When Pope John Paul II met with Sadik earlier this year, he delivered a message condemning abortion as a "heinous evil" and followed up by calling the proposed plan a "project of systematic death." Sadik maintains that the conference plan does not endorse or encourage abortion, but merely declares that the millions of abortions performed every year should be done under conditions that ensure...
...security for Chavis even as 200 of his backers demonstrated their support. Earlier some anti-Chavis board members said they had received threats. However, in spite of an hour-long speech in his own defense, Chavis was unable to reverse his fate; board members Hazel Dukes and Joe Madison drew up a resolution asking him to step down effective immediately. When rumors spread that Chavis was out, 20 of his young supporters attempted to rush the meeting and were prevented from entering only when N.A.A.C.P. staff members blocked the entrance. Several Chavis supporters declared they were going to quit...
...give TIME's readers a realistic assessment of a perilous situation, we drew on the experience of Bruce van Voorst, who has covered Germany off and on since 1965, and who took over in May as our Bonn bureau chief. Van Voorst considers himself a lucky man: "My timing has always been good. I was in Germany when Willy Brandt set Ostpolitik in motion -- leading to German unification; in South America when Allende fell; with Kissinger during his shuttle diplomacy...