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...guaranteed them "unconditionally and for all time" in 1920 -- then violated under the terms of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which led to Stalin's annexation of the Baltics. Estonian legislators want the issue of independence placed on the agenda for a Helsinki conference that Gorbachev has proposed to lay the foundation for his much touted "common European home." Legalists in Tallinn cite the Austrian State Treaty of 1955, which guaranteed the country's neutrality in exchange for the withdrawal of Soviet troops, as a model for Soviet military disengagement...
Until the very end of the play, the men of Monster are devoid of the humanity, which the women like Macha and her child Etain embody. The final resolution, where Lord Owain comes to lay down his weapons and his machismo, is problematic. His character has not been properly prepared for the metamorphosis. His chastity after his wife's death and his late embrace of a more empathetic way of life cannot be convincing, because, throughout the work, his character has been flat and static. Even if we did believe the change, we would know it was not entirely autonomously...
Following a procedure revised in 1977, candidates for the post will be selected by a panel of bishops, priests and lay people chosen by the church, with a Thatcher appointee in charge. The panel will propose two names to the Prime Minister in order of preference. She gains further leverage through her power to reject both names and demand new ones, although such a move would be extraordinary...
...sticking point is the reluctance of some anti-Sandinista contras to lay down their weapons before Chamorro takes office on April 25. But the rebels are running out of friends faster than ammunition. When 100 contras ambushed and killed a dozen Sandinista soldiers near the Honduran border last week, the attack was swiftly denounced by the newspaper La Prensa, owned and operated by the Chamorro family...
...author asserts that the student group has "eclipsed" the chaplaincy, and he presumes that the role of the chaplains is to DISPLAY MEMORY discipline "strident lay groups." He seems unable to understand that student involvement in Catholic activities at Harvard is a collaborative effort, chaplains and students sharing their respective competencies to incarnate the gospel...