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...Kissinger, who in recent months has become a regular informal consultant to Clark, the appointment presented a chance to return to a position of official power. For the Reagan Administration, which has often been criticized for lacking depth in international affairs, tapping Kissinger was a way to lend credibility to foundering aspects of its foreign policy. But the choice was nonetheless surprising. The commission was formed in part to dampen domestic controversy, and Kissinger is, above all, a highly controversial figure. Indeed, in his unsuccessful 1976 primary campaign against President Gerald Ford, Reagan launched a sustained series of attacks...
Quinn said that such a series of maneuver--probably totalling four shifts in all--could as lend the work at the Quad through as less as the beginning of 1988, three years beyond the currently scheduled completion of the entire House renovation program...
...Matheson has succeeded in getting ten Utah counties declared national disaster areas, the church will gently discourage its followers from applying for federal assistance. And the Mormon effort has been joined by volunteers from all religious backgrounds, creating some duplications of service. Mormons from Rexburg, Idaho, though eager to lend a hand in Utah, have been told by church officials that they are not yet needed. Says Elder Robert E. Wells, an executive administrator in the church: "We're always organized for emergencies. We have a tight-knit ecclesiastical order from the grass roots...
...which the invaders transport their supplies. Meantime, according to Western intelligence reports, Soviet bombers were attacking targets near Herat in the west and around Kandahar in the south. They apparently hope that by demolishing villages they can devastate local agriculture and drive the residents from areas that might otherwise lend support to the insurgents. As Abdul Haq, a guerrilla commander interviewed in Pakistan, points out, "Every kind of supply for the mujahedin [warriors] comes from the civilian population. It makes trouble when the villages are empty...
...peace and war in a scholarly fashion and in the context of our Christian teaching and tradition would be a great service both to the Catholic community and the wider society. Another important agent in this task of shaping a community of conscience is you. I urge you to lend your own voice to the discussion. You do this, of course, more by example than by word. The church's witness is really your witness because the church's witness is tied to the integrity and the quality of life of its members. So how you live your...