Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monday, he said he had written "one pathetic paragraph" of the letter and was not sure when he would complete...
...page plan calling on governments to commit $17 billion annually by the year 2000 to curb global population growth. About 90% of the draft document had been approved in advance by the participants, but the remaining 10% contained some bombshells John Paul had seen coming. The most explosive was Paragraph 8.25, which owed its inclusion in part to a March 16 directive from the Clinton Administration to all U.S. embassies; it stated that "the United States believes access to safe, legal and voluntary abortion is a fundamental right of all women" and insisted the Cairo conference endorse that policy...
John Paul was not in Cairo, but he kept in constant touch with his delegation. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls recalls the Pope's reaction to Paragraph 8.25: "He feared that for the first time in the history of humanity, abortion was being proposed as a means of population control. He put all the prestige of his office at the service of this issue." For nine days the Vatican delegates, under his direction, lobbied and filibustered; they kept their Latin American bloc in line and struck up alliances with Islamic nations opposed to abortion. In the end, the Pope...
News stories are written in a form called "inverted pyramid." This means that the most important information is presented in the first--or lead--paragraph, and the less pertinent a fact is, the lower it will be in the story...
This form is designed to help readers get a quick overview of a story by reading just the first few lines of text. It also means that editors base their headlines largely on the lead paragraph...