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...count on it. Says Father Richard McBrien, former chairman of the department of theology at Notre Dame: "The next Pope will be an Italian Cardinal in his 70s. The Cardinals don't want another long-term Pope, and after having made a bold move in electing a Slav, they're not going to elect a black Pope. Even though Italians no longer dominate, they're still the largest bloc, and an Italian is a safe choice...
...fundamental issue in Kosovo is the rule of law--whether one group of people can rob, murder and displace another with impunity [WORLD, May 3]. Russia is another Slav nation, far more powerful, also chafing from its loss of empire. What lessons will it learn if nato fails to restore the Kosovar Albanians to their rightful homes? I am ashamed of Congress for its vote denying support. A victory is absolutely vital. GERALD K. MELIS Wardsboro...
...have to fly bombing runs over the fog-wrapped mountains of Bosnia. A peaceful withdrawal will let him and the rest of the West claim it is the result of their toughness in facing down the Serbs. Yeltsin will score political points at home for standing by his Slav friends and abroad for his seriousness as an international peacemaker...
Part of the diplomacy involves keeping Russia on the West's team. President Boris Yeltsin is under heavy pressure from parliament to join forces with Russia's traditional Slav allies, the Serbs. A way to strengthen the existing bond, Washington has decided, is to bring the Russians into the airlift. Moscow has agreed, and five U.S. Air Force officers are to fly there this week to plan Russian participation, which will include flying cargo missions to Bosnia from NATO bases in Germany and Italy -- the first U.S.-Russian joint operations since World...
When they turned to face Moldova, however, the two silver-haired Presidents were less conciliatory. Russians and Ukrainians are trying to secede from the former republic, where ethnic Romanians predominate, moves to rejoin Romania. Fighting intensified in Bendery, a Slav enclave on the west bank of the Dniester River, as former Soviet army units joined in combat against Moldovans...