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...same time as the ceremonial opening of Iceland's parliament. It was bad advance work by Moscow, for it meant that neither Iceland's President nor Prime Minister could be there to greet the Soviet leader. He and his wife Raisa were met instead by Foreign Minister Matthias Matthiesen. "We told Moscow about the opening of the parliament," lamented a Soviet embassy vice-consul, "but they decided it was too late to change plans...
...billion this year, and are expected to rise 75% more by the year 2000. Additional funds and technology will undoubtedly go to help neighbors to the east modernize their industries and fight pollution. Both Sweden and the Netherlands, for example, have offered to help Poland cleanse its air. Klaus Matthiesen, environment minister of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia, notes that spending on environmental preservation "must be regarded as an important motor of economic change...
Despite the bishops' consensus, grumbling persisted. Bishop Michael Kenny of Juneau was disappointed that the statement did not confront the perception of "injustice" in the case. While conceding that "there really was little this group could do," Bishop Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas, an ally of Hunthausen's in the antinuclear cause, noted that the long debate would surely send a warning to Rome through Laghi, who calmly observed the proceedings...
...group Pax Christi. They have been encouraged by the example of Pope John Paul II, who has made the abolition of nuclear war a central theme of his papacy and who last year made a pilgrimage to the memorial at Hiroshima. Some have gone as far as Bishop Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas, who has told those in his diocese not to work at a local nuclear weapons plant. "The possession of nuclear weapons is the same thing as a threat to use them," he argues...
...Central America but not enough to do anything about it. On the questions of nuclear arms, human rights, abortion and poverty, the Pope's stated positions and personal actions suggest that he almost certainly agrees in principle with what the newly activist Americans are doing. As Bishop Matthiesen says about nuclear arms, "This is the politics of survival. It would be surprising for the church not to say something...