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...health? That's what Italy's Environment Minister Willer Bordon is alleging, and the Roman Catholic Church is not pleased. The dispute, which broke out in early March, centers on allegedly excessive levels of electromagnetic radiation produced by Vatican Radio's powerful transmitters. The Vatican claims that as a sovereign state under a 1929 treaty it is not subject to Italian prosecutors. Bordon says that unless emissions are reduced by the end of this week, he will order electricity suppliers to cut off the station's power...
...analysts speculate that debate may have been provoked to help Bordon and the governing center-left coalition in May's general elections. "There's a lot of propaganda here," says Massimiliano Valente, an expert in relations between Italy and the Holy See. "A minister can't deal with a sovereign state without following the diplomatic channels." Vatican officials have repeatedly quoted scientists claiming there is no link between electromagnetic transmissions and health problems. The officials point out that a special bilateral commission began negotiations on the problem more than a year ago. They also note that the transmitters fall well...
Imagine if a country more powerful than the U.S. told Americans where they could and could not fly in the airspace over their own country. Clearly that would be intolerable for the U.S., as it would be for any sovereign state, including Iraq. The real damage caused by the bombing of Baghdad [WORLD, Feb. 26] is the increased hostility toward the U.S. among Arabs and the increasing alienation of U.S. allies because of Washington's policy on Iraq. JOHN J. MOELAERT Victoria...
...Ironies aside, the demise of Milosevic has strengthened the tendency in NATO to discourage any redrawing of sovereign borders in the Balkans. And Western enthusiasm for policing the region's tribal wars will inevitably wane in proportion to any increase in direct danger to their troops. For some, that appears to make a compelling case for bringing back the Yugoslav army to police the borders NATO is now committed to upholding. Who knows, at this rate they may yet find themselves pining for the former Yugoslavia...
...NTSB was called in because this collision involved civilians and occurred in U.S. waters. And to be honest, the Navy is not at all opposed to having another set of eyes on this investigation - when something like this happens out on the water and you're not in sovereign territory, issues of control can get kind of messy. Besides, if the inquiry had been totally self-contained within the Navy, it might have looked kind of suspicious...