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...inch of progress is an accurate measure of what the Vatican has tried to accomplish in other areas of Eastern Europe. It is the sort of modus vivendi that has been the aim of Monsignor Agostino Casaroli, a veteran church dip omat, who over the past few years has been in charge of negotiations with the Communists. Not all of Casaroli's Vatican colleagues feel that his pursuit of compromise has won more than it has given away, though there is little question that liberalization in Czechoslovakia and recognition in Hungary have improved Catholic status...
...recalls with astonishment that after firing him Dulles telephoned to offer the use of his name as a reference. "What could I say?" asks Davies. "It was so bizarre." As Davies sees it, both he and Dulles were victims of the times. "Getting rid of me was his modus operandi with Congress," he says. "It made it easier for him to work with them. The Congress is not so naive now. It has learned to live with dissension on foreign affairs." He adds: "The State Department is catching up with the times in personnel matters as well as policy...
...favor of establishing additional modus operandi for the constant evaluation of our foreign aid program and for the supervision of the distribution of the funds provided for in such programs...
...this day. It is that each country has the right to find its own way to socialism-a heresy that the Czechoslovaks took further in terms of granting personal and press freedom than Tito did. As a result, the Soviet leaders, though they came to a sort of modus Vivendi with Tito 13 years ago, rightfully point to him as the originator of the ideological troubles that have undermined their position as the sole interpreter of Communist truth and orthodoxy...
...Arab terrorist organization El Fatah promptly claimed credit for the explosions that brought the total number of such incidents to 14 in two months. Its aim: to unsettle the civilian population and sabotage the modus vivendi between Jews and Arabs in Je rusalem. After a protest strike by the Arab population, normal life returned to Jerusalem. But on the Israeli-Jor danian border, the military hostilities erupted anew. At week's end Israelis and Jordanians were peppering one another across the frontier with small-arms fire...