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Gorbachev's signals to non-Soviet Communists have been similarly varied. To leaders of the Italian Communist Party, who regularly proclaim independence from the Kremlin and in pre-Gorbachev days were just as regularly denounced for it by Moscow, the message seems to be that all is forgiven. Gorbachev reportedly has told two prominent Italian Communists who met separately and privately with him on visits to Moscow that he recognizes their right to hold an independent view of how to apply Marxist precepts in Italy...
...conditions for repentance: one must go in genuine contrition to the person sinned against, and one must do one's best to compensate for the wrong done. But how can a Nazi, say, compensate a Jew for exterminating his entire family? In that sense, some crimes simply cannot be forgiven...
...Israeli tanks withdrew, Shi'ite Amal militiamen drove in to a huge welcome from the residents of Tyre. The fighters began rounding up collaborators, although Daoud Daoud, an Amal leader, insisted that "now is a time for pity. Collaborators who do not have blood on their hands will be forgiven...
...Madam," as she was dubbed in headlines, was charged last year with running a posh prostitution service out of a Manhattan town house. Apparently the indiscretion did not much bother the 300 guests who paid $40 apiece to bolster her legal-defense hope chest. Not that Barrows was totally forgiven. "She was stupid," chided one guest, "she used credit cards." Some things are just too vulgar to overlook...
...seen moods of penitence and humility from postwar Germany. Now it seems to be hearing from you a tone that is more aggressive and insistent on Germany's right to be accepted and forgiven...