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...Vaticana bibis, bibis venenum," wrote the Roman satirist Martial in the 1st century: "Drink Vatican and you drink poison." Martial was writing of the wine produced in the neighborhood, which at the time was more famous as the site of the Vatican Circus, where Nero threw Christians to the lions after the great fire that swept Rome in A.D. 64. On such engaging historical notes opens The Vatican (Abrams; 398 pages; $60), a book that will do much to fill in the fragmentary picture that even dedicated travelers take away from this tiny (108 acres) yet labyrinthine city-state. This...
...power in 1970 partly because of unrest over food price hikes, and the organizing drive that produced Solidarity was born out of anger over 1980 increases. With such memories still painfully fresh, the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski last week began imposing the third set of price increases since martial law was declared in December 1981 and the first since it was lifted last July. The increases were sure to appear at the top of the agenda when Communist Party officials gathered at week's end for the 14th plenary session of the United Workers' Party. This time...
When Ozal takes office later this month, his powers will include the right to end the three-year state of martial law. But he will still be operating under the watchful eyes of Turkey's generals. Well aware of that fact, Ozal says that he intends to be "very careful. We should not let anarchy return to Turkey. But everybody should agree that martial law is not permanent...
...adults smiled their approval. Finally, a high school marching band tramped loudly up to the monument, throwing a gaggle of preschoolers into disarray. As some toddlers cringed, while others sucked their thumbs, teachers urged their little charges to ball their fists and punch the air in time to the martial strains...
...SOUTH AFRICAN government will now have a larger group to draw on for mandatory military conscription. Combined with the power of the president for martial law, the new constitution is simply an effort at modernizing the existing apartheid system...