Word: foes
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Utterly loyal and discreet, Dziwisz (pronounced Gee-vish) served as Wojtyla's secretary and chaplain when the future Pope was still Archbishop and Cardinal of Cracow. Today he is the gatekeeper: no one -- neither papal friend nor foe -- comes to the Holy Father save through the humble monsignor. Says a close papal aide: "Whoever the Pope is, he's going to be someone who feels very much alone. You need someone by your side, a kind of soul mate, and that's what Don Stanislaw...
...Clinton Administration justifies American arms sales from another perspective. "All our arms-sale decisions optimize national security," an Administration official insists. "We're not letting sales simply float up to their natural level." Beyond that, he argues, different militaries can work together more easily against a common foe if they possess similar armaments. "The success we enjoyed in the Gulf War was due in some substantial measure to the interoperability of the allied forces," this official says. Besides, defense contractors are starved for work. "We're in a difficult time. Shrinking U.S. defense budgets add pressures to sell abroad...
...just last week. Today a judge sentenced the antiabortion activist to death in the electric chair for slaying an abortion doctor and his bodyguard outside a Pensacola, Florida abortion clinic. Hill listened with a blank look on his face as Judge Frank Bell read his sentence. But an abortion foe who was in court yelled out: "This man is innocent and his blood will be on your hands, the hands of the people of the state of Florida and on the jury!" The judge said he had rejected life in prison -- an option he had -- because Hill had paused briefly...
Yasser Arafat's security forces in the Gaza Strip, nearly all of them veterans of the battle against Israel, faced a new foe last week: the enemy within. They answered the challenge from Gaza's Islamic militants in precisely the same way that the Israeli occupiers had done -- bluntly, and with lethal force. By the time the bloody fraternal clashes had simmered down, 15 Palestinians were dead, another 200 were crowding the hospitals and hundreds more were behind bars...
...election and win?" asked CCA President R. Philip Dowds, a Walsh foe. "Look at Oliver North, who almost won, Marion Barry, who's back as mayor in Washington. Amazing things happen in politics...