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Reagan's advisers agreed that an announcement should be made before the Easter weekend in the hope that it would take some of the steam out of antinuclear demonstrations scheduled in Britain and West Germany over the holiday. (That hope was not entirely fulfilled: some 50,000 to 100,000 demonstrators linked arms on Friday to form a human chain around Greenham Common Air Base, a British facility where cruise missiles are to be installed.) Reagan first proposed to break the news in his Los Angeles speech last Thursday. But diplomats pointed out that...
...Easter Week is a major holiday throughout Latin America. But in revolutionary Nicaragua there were a few differences in the seasonal festivities. The Sandinista government announced that it would ban all radio broadcasts of Easter Masses unless the regime could censor pastoral sermons. Then, as half the country prepared to flock to the beach after their religious observances, the others girded...
...great shock of white hair, the American traveler stood by China's Great Wall and sang Danny Boy. Sure and begorra, it could only be that wandering curator of Irish wit and Boston wisdom, Tip O'Neill, 70. The Speaker of the House has been spending his Easter recess in China with a contingent of 13 Congressmen on an itinerary that last week included visits in Peking with both Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, 78, and Premier Zhao Ziyang, 64. After venturing that there had been "a tremendous meeting of minds," O'Neill let slip at a press...
...Finders, keepers." Not a moment too soon. Recalls Fisher's longtime partner Bob Moran, 57: "If we could have had access to what we brought up, we could have gone ahead without borrowing and finding investors." Instead, by 1980, Treasure Salvors' financial situation was desperate. Then, during Easter vacation, Jerry Burke's eight-year-old son Justin dragged his father to an exhibit that Treasure Salvors had set up in Key West...
...Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. will receive an anxiously awaited item in this week's post-Easter mail: the final revision of a proposed pastoral letter on nuclear arms. The controversial 140-page document accommodates some criticisms from conservatives in the U.S. and Catholics abroad, but it remains a sweeping critique of U.S. nuclear-deterrence strategy at the very time when President Reagan is caught up in a tense international struggle over the issue. Moreover, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, chairman of the drafting committee, informed fellow bishops in a confidential memo two weeks ago that he discussed...