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...United Nations earlier this month, members of Soviet Diplomat Arkadi Shevchenko's staff were astonished when their ordinarily aloof, impersonal boss confided that he had a grievous family worry: his mother-in-law was so ill that he had to fly home to Moscow. Summoning security guards, Shevchenko ordered his private office sealed. Then the stooped, round-faced Under Secretary-General strolled out of U.N. headquarters in Manhattan and disappeared...
Hailing its commandos home last week, Egypt treated the Larnaca raid as a famous victory, and in a sense it was. Sadat was praised for forcefulness not only by President Carter but even by the Israelis. But the Cyprus events, beginning with Sebai's assassination, were a grievous blow to Arab unity, especially for rejectionists like Arafat, who oppose Sadat's negotiations but would really like to close the gap between their position and his. Up to now Sadat has based his conversations with Israel not only on the recovery of Sinai but on Palestinian rights as well...
...recovery by dumping its slow-growth policies in favor of accelerated expansion-and once again the Germans have refused. At a tense three-hour meeting in Bonn, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal was lectured last week by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt about the U.S.'s economic "sins." Among the most grievous cited by Schmidt: the absence of a coherent energy program; the U.S.'s huge foreign trade deficit, which stimulates international inflation; and Washington's unconscionable failure to support the sagging dollar...
Lefebvre, 71, was the missionary archbishop in Senegal, and has also served as a bishop in France and as superior general of the Fathers of the Holy Spirit. In 1971, convinced that the liberalizing Second Vatican Council had been a grievous mistake, Lefebvre set up his rebel Swiss seminary to train priests in the old ways. He has berated ecumenism and Communism, but his main crusade is for the use of the old Latin Mass authorized by the Council of Trent in 1562, rather than the slightly simplified Latin Mass of Pope Paul or the modern-language Masses that have...
Jewish authorities hold that a Jew who adopts Christianity - or any other religion - is a meshummad (apostate), a grievous sinner who incurs various penalties. He may not be a witness in a Jewish legal proceeding or count in the minyan, or quorum for prayer. He remains technically a Jew, however, since the Talmud says that "a Jew who sins is still...