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Last September President Bush vowed to enlist the armed forces in preventing illegal drugs from being smuggled into the U.S. Recently, he approved plans to station a naval task force off the Caribbean coast of Colombia to monitor sea and air traffic. The task force might consist of an aircraft carrier, up to eight support vessels, and E-2C Hawkeye aircraft equipped with sophisticated radar that can track hundreds of planes at a time. Rather than shoot down suspected smugglers, the force would observe planes flying in or out of Colombia and notify Colombian authorities or the U.S. Coast Guard...
...months. However, Russian Orthodoxy's current 10,000 churches are a far cry from the 18,000 that existed when Stalin died, and just a fraction of the 54,000 before the Bolshevik Revolution. Ever since World War II, when Stalin fostered a , revival of Orthodoxy in order to enlist its support in the war effort, the Kremlin's policy has been not to liquidate the church but to infiltrate and control it. For that reason, the Soviet regime has always preferred docile Russian-led Orthodox and Protestant churches to Catholicism, which is more independent and led by a feisty...
Howe brought a blunt and unwelcome message: "There is simply no way a British government could grant to several million people the right to come and live in Britain." Instead, while planning to admit perhaps 100,000 Hong Kong Chinese, London offered to enlist the U.S., Canada and Australia in a last- resort "lifeboat" plan to absorb others in the event of a mass exodus. In the meantime, Britain would hasten the implementation of self-rule and press Beijing for fresh assurances that Chinese troops would stay out of Hong Kong. The colony's Chinese were not appeased. Storming...
...appointed him director of the archdiocese's evangelism program. Heedless of Hickey's stern warnings, Stallings is determined to celebrate Mass for his Imani (Swahili for faith) Temple, which will meet temporarily in a chapel at Howard University. How many of the archdiocese's 80,000 black parishioners will enlist in this self-made Catholicism? Jacqueline Wilson, who directs the Washington archdiocesan office for black Catholics, thinks "there are a lot who share his concern," but expects that most will stick with the official church. "No one," she believes, "can go off and start up his own church and call...
...Szoka has written movingly about the church's past failures in ministering to blacks. But the Cardinal felt compelled to take drastic action, in part because of Detroit's ruinous population decline. The city's churches, however, are also dying because they have failed to enlist any significant numbers of blacks when white ethnics began moving out of their neighborhoods. Says the Rev. Norman Thomas, a white priest who opposes the closings: "The church has not done an adequate job of being a church in the city, and that includes attracting blacks...