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At Fatima, Portugal, the shrine marking the appearance of Mary before three children in 1917 draws a steady 4.5 million pilgrims a year from an ever widening array of countries. One million devotees turned out last May when John Paul made his second visit.
In the end there was something for everybody. Britain could claim that it was still master of its monetary and labor policies. France could point to a firm timetable for establishing a single currency for the European Community's other 11 members. Germany, among the most Euro-minded of the...
Of course, this is just as my friend the Eurocrat would have it. Believers in European political unity dream of Europe's regaining a leadership role in world events, something many feared it had lost forever to the giants of the East and West. France has long kept America's...
Two American journalists witnessed the attack and, though they were beaten, escaped to report it. Outrage followed swiftly last week. The European Parliament called for an arms embargo on Indonesia. The Netherlands, which heads an aid consortium for Indonesia, halted new assistance, and there were street demonstrations in Portugal.
FOOTNOTE: *Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.