Word: saids
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...AIDS. He has also supported the obstructionist tactics of such antiabortion groups as Operation Rescue that block abortion clinics and harass their clients. "It's quite ironic that Cardinal O'Connor is so angry over this act of civil disobedience, when he has espoused a form of it himself," said Ellen Carton, executive director of the New York State branch of the National Abortion Rights Action League. The Cardinal offered an answer as he gave the benediction for the interrupted Mass at St. Patrick's. Said O'Connor: "I must preach what the church preaches, teach what the church teaches...
Both Nixon and Kissinger support Brent Scowcroft's fence-mending expedition to China. But Kissinger said last week that sending Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger was a mistake. Dispatching not one, but two former executives of his consulting firm to implement a policy he supports, Kissinger told the Washington Post, gives critics an opening "to blacken my reputation...
...years before Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole, Admiral Robert E. Peary went in the opposite direction to the top of the world -- or so he said. Skeptics have long challenged his claim, contending that he never got closer to the pole than 89 km (55 miles) away...
Though the British Foreign Office said there will be no more involuntary repatriations this year, they are certain to resume unless other nations offer an alternative. The boat people, says a senior British diplomat, "are chasing a dream that doesn't and can't exist." At least not in Hong Kong...
Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee said the two men explored "ways and means to address the current obstacles in the way of meaningful dialogue." The government did not say when it might release Mandela, muting hopes of a Christmas homecoming, but Coetsee said De Klerk wants to resume talks with Mandela next year...