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...great respect," that while mentioning all six of the offending charges, stopped short of making a formal apology. It was apparently enough to persuade Peres to back off. At 11:59 p.m. Thursday, word went out that the shaky union between Peres' left-of-center Labor Party and the rightist Likud bloc, to which Sharon belongs, had survived...
...control burnished his aura as someone of more than religious prominence and, indeed, beyond mankind's lower passions. On May 13, 1981, during his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square, shots rang out, and he toppled back, his white cassock stained red. Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish rightist and a murderer who had earlier written a letter threatening to kill John Paul, was trying to follow through. The bullet passed within millimeters of a major artery and within inches of several vital organs. "Mary, my mother," John Paul gasped as he collapsed. Doctors removed part of his intestine...
...succeeded Martini in Milan. His philosophical approach is sufficiently unclear that neither the progressive Cardinals nor the doctrinaire are likely to oppose him. In Genoa he spoke out in favor of antiglobalization protesters, and in Milan he has called for compassion toward immigrants, drawing the wrath of rightist politicians...
...reason to fabricate them. He insists all the documents in his institute are 100% genuine. "They reflect the truth," he says. Niezabitowska's case and others have been seized upon by some opposition parties to assail Poland's postcommunist political élite, both ex-communists and ex-dissidents. The rightist Law and Justice Party is pressing for a "complete lustration" of all state and city officials, professors, company directors and even editors. Many observers, even sympathetic ones, say Niezabitowska's biggest mistake was not bringing this incident up when she was appointed government spokeswoman in 1989. "She was treated...
...parliamentary immunity so he can be placed under formal investigation. "If the vote were today, the immunity would not only be lifted, but Julia would be excluded from our party," warns an official in the ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). Why turn on a fellow rightist? In part due to Julia's attack on the government during the hostage affair: he accused it of negligence, of using him as "a scapegoat," and said Foreign Minister Michel Barnier had been "completely useless" in a crisis "that should have been resolved in four days, not four months." Julia says...