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...changed to, 'Thank God we never tried.' " Meanwhile, at the United Nations most of the Caribbean countries were trying to keep a low profile in the affair partly to avoid jeopardizing foreign aid from the U.S. and partly because many are English-speaking former colonies that retain sympathy for Britain...
...role of the Soviet Union in the present conflict has been an anomalous one. Anxious to retain its longstanding ties with Baghdad while building a new relationship with Tehran, Moscow was hoping to negotiate a peace settlement between the two countries and use that agreement as the basis of a new pro-Soviet alliance. No way, said Khomeini, adding that the real test of Soviet friendship rested on whether Moscow would publicly condemn Saddam Hussein as the aggressor in the war and would halt all arms shipments to Iraq. The Soviets temporized, finally concluding that there was little they could...
Some analysts believe that the selection of Andropov's successor from the Ukraine, instead of from the central KGB apparatus in Moscow, resulted from Andropov's effort to retain much of his authority. Says Rush...
Perhaps underlying Runcie's long-term view for the future is a 1920s proposal by Belgium's Desire Cardinal Mercier that Anglicanism be "united, not absorbed." This would leave the Archbishop of Canterbury as patriarch of a group that would come under the papacy but retain control of its liturgy and canon law. Still, no sort of reunion-Runcie's flexibility aside-could occur without similar flexibility from Rome...
Catholicism has managed to bypass or relieve many rancorous problems. Use of the Bible is far more widespread, and worship in common languages is the norm. While Rome still requires celibacy in the West, its Eastern rites retain their tradition of married priests. It has partially restored the practice that the laity may receive wine as well as bread during Communion, a point of sharp conflict in the 16th century. Other concessions flowed out of Vatican II, but a host of differences remains-including highly emotional issues, such as mixed marriages, divorce discipline, birth control, the rights of the laity...