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...apple in Cornwell's tale of sin is papal power. Pius, born Eugenio Pacelli, hailed from a family of Vatican loyalists dedicated to tightening Rome's rein on its semi-independent European churches. As a diplomat in Germany, he pursued the long-term goal of a church-state pact granting Rome near total control over its Teutonic flock. No German leader would sign--until Hitler...
...makes grave accusations without supplying the evidence." Blet was one of four Jesuits who compiled the official 12-volume record of Pius' war years from Vatican archives. He too has a new book: a useful summary titled Pius XII and the Second World War. Blet maintains that the 1933 pact was "practically imposed by Hitler." And papal power was hardly its only carrot: "The Nazis offered such good conditions that it would have been crazy not to sign it." Cornwell's implication of Pacelli in the Center Party's demise, he notes, rests heavily on uncorroborated memoirs by a former...
...than "liberal claptrap," as California Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher puts it. Others interpret the climate moves as a sly attempt by the Administration to enact by bits and pieces what the Senate declared it would not do when it voted 95-0 to oppose the Kyoto treaty, an international pact to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions that is strongly supported by Vice President Al Gore. Moreover, some politicians fall back on the uncertainty argument, asserting that the enactment of costly preventive measures now, before all the evidence is in, would invite economic disaster. Still others use the debate as an opportunity...
...contest the peacekeepers have little chance of winning. Many trauma-racked refugees, still wary of Serbian aggression, are sure to look to the K.L.A. for protection. The peace pact calls for the "demilitarization" of the K.L.A.--but not for its disarming. So the rebels will keep their small arms, the tools of choice for guerrilla fighters. Meanwhile, the U.N. will shoulder the heavy burden of setting up a Kosovar police force. Its first challenge will be to stamp out the K.L.A.'s revolutionary zeal. Albright labored to assure the 200,000 Serbs in Kosovo that the K.L.A. had pledged...
...finally over? After exhaustive negotiations, Yugoslav generals Wednesday night signed a detailed agreement on withdrawing their forces from Kosovo. The pact is expected to bring an end to NATO?s bombing -? Germany says that?s already effectively happened; NATO?s spokesman insists it?ll happen as soon as the Serbs hit the road. But even with international peacekeepers poised to enter the province and make it safe for returning refugees, the struggle for Kosovo may be far from over. "Experience tells us to expect Milosevic to do his utmost to stall, perhaps not withdrawing all of his forces and seeking...