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Although the Vatican pronounced the apparitions genuine, the Pope was slow to react to Fatima. Fatimites imply that the evils of Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany and the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia could have been avoided if only Catholics and the pope had responded more quickly...
...results are policies that cater to the few and disillusionment among the many. When millions of voters ignore elections, politicians react to vocal, concentrated interest groups who may not have the interests of the public in mind. When voters do not take an active, daily interest in politics, small, well organized special interests win out over the more diffuse national interest...
...there was one person who knew how best Harvard should react to the changes in South Africa, it was Tutu. Tutu won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to help topple the racist South African regime, and had only days before spoken with South Africa's president, F.W. de Klerk...
...internal demands for change and has historically ignored external pressures. The bill passed by Congress, if signed into law, would have provoked a severe reaction from China's leaders, quite possibly endangering the families and friends of the very people congress was trying to protect. China did, in fact, react vehemently to the original passage of the bill and to the House's override of the veto. Unfortunately, the ultimate goal of both the Chinese students and President Bush--freedom for the people of China--requires a continuing dialogue with the Chinese government. Bush's carefully thought-out program does...
...eliminate most of those old Allied rights, including Soviet rights in East Germany. Horst Ehmke, foreign policy spokesman for the opposition Social Democrats, calls for using all-European diplomatic instruments to replace the residual rights of the Allies. "If you talk in terms of occupation powers, then Germans will react with feelings of nationalism," he says. It would be better, he argues, to use the 35-nation Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to bring a formal end to the postwar division of Europe...