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...dimly lit foyer, it is just possible to read the notices that hang on the wall amid posters of Pope John Paul II. One large hand-scrawled message contains a plea for men's shoes of all sizes. Another, more ominously, lists the political trials that are currently in progress. Inside the vestibule, a Franciscan nun in a brown habit tends an old-fashioned telephone switchboard. Off to the side, a room is piled high with boxes containing toothpaste, soap, powdered milk and other items...
Before a gathering of the Foreign Policy Association at New York's Plaza Hotel, Hawke warned that any slackening of trade in the region, including the adoption of protectionist measures aimed at the Japanese, could indirectly slow Australia's economic recovery. He also made a plea for continued American investment in Australian industry (which has totaled $6 billion over the past five years). "We look forward to trade with and investment from the United States playing an important role in [our] recovery," said Hawke. "Ours is a relationship which goes far beyond the defense, strategic and security concerns...
...heads the National Council of Churches. Twenty-three Roman Catholic bishops added their names, as did Jewish Leaders Albert Vorspan and Rabbi Wolfe Kelman. The prestige of the clergymen, as well as the wide variety of their views on religious and social issues, gave special impact to their plea to Congress: ban genetic experiments by scientists that might change human characteristics passed along from one generation to its successor...
...unified stand was, in part, an acceptance of President Reagan's oft-repeated contention that the Soviets would not seriously pursue arms control until the West resolved to build up its own nuclear arsenal. In Williamsburg, Reagan made a 20-minute plea for solidarity on the missile question. "We've fought together and we've fought each other and now we must stand together," he said. If the allies backed away from their deployment plans, he warned, "there will be laughter in the Kremlin tonight...
...friend Milan Kundera, the Czech novelist, makes a plea for "the small cultures" from the wounded heart of Central Europe...