Word: ills
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Thomas Doran, who served on the Rota until he was made Bishop of Rockford, Ill., understands both sides. American Catholics live "with a divorce mentality," he says, and are bound to be affected by it. But they are also subject to Catholic canon law, which has always strictly carried out Jesus's teaching against divorce. Doran and his colleagues are in the middle. They would like to stem the annulment tide. "But the trouble," he sighs, "is that saying no is never an easy thing...
...Clinton Administration dispatched U.N. ambassador Bill Richardson last week to push Mobutu into a face-to-face meeting with Kabila to arrange a "soft landing," allowing the President to retire on grounds of ill health. Richardson carried a letter along those lines from Clinton. The special envoy was also trying to persuade Kabila that he should accept a cease-fire, commit himself to early elections and open the way for aid agencies to help feed and evacuate tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees who fled the fighting only to starve in the Zairean jungle. Both men disliked the terms...
...been valued at as much as $1.5 billion), paying for it with preferred stock in News Corp. That would make Robertson a sizable shareholder in a media giant that, even without the Bundys, is one of the most flagrant purveyors of sex (Melrose Place), violence (The X-Files) and ill-mannered humor (The Simpsons) on television...
...during the production because he was unhappy about the script, Halmi slapped him with a lawsuit for the entire budget of the film. Assante came back, and Halmi conceded to a reworking of the teleplay. It is a testimony to the producer's wily charm that Assante harbors no ill will. "The experience," he reasons, "was very good for me. I thank him for what he did." Whether America thanks Halmi for The Odyssey, or decides that it prefers its literary-inspired mini-series confined to the novels of Jackie Collins, remains to be seen...
LIBREVILLE, Gabon: Mobutu Sese Seko emerged from a summit of his francophone allies insisting he would return to Kinshasa and hold elections while finally acknowledging he is too ill to be a candidate. But as night fell in Gabon, the presidential plane still sat in the Libreville airport. The possibility remains that despite his protestations, the 66-year-old dictator will end his 32-year reign by flying not south to Kinshasa but north to France. "Even if Mobutu does fly to France, he will almost certainly still be vowing to return to Zaire," says TIME's Peter Graff from...