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When will President Reagan begin to realize that the European allies are not his marionettes to manipulate but sovereign states with their own requirements and foreign policies? We do not want to be lectured on the potential risks of the pipeline deal with the U.S.S.R. [Aug. 2] by someone who is selling grain to the Soviet Union. This impudent attitude, along with America's high interest rates, which are seriously endangering European economies, is bound eventually to wreck the Western alliance...
...Holy See jealously guards its status as a sovereign state. When Italian officials sent letters to the three bankers, informing them of the investigation, the Holy See's Secretariat of State refused to take delivery of the documents. Instead, it insisted that the letters be passed through formal diplomatic channels via the Italian embassy to the Holy See. Italian officials are expected to resend the notifications this week, perhaps through the foreign ministry...
...Hyde Park blast, a terse and chilling telex message arrived in the offices of several newspapers in the Northern Ireland capital of Belfast. Said the cable: "The Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for today's bomb attack on members of the Household Cavalry. The Irish people have sovereign and national rights which no occupation force can put down." The I.R.A. action was the most dramatic on British soil since last October, when two persons were killed and 38 wounded in a similar bombing outside Chelsea Barracks. It was the most stunning incident of terrorism since the assassination of Lord...
...from a desire to end a war, was to establish the basis for a new religious peace between Anglicans and Catholics, who have been divided for four centuries. As thousands of people cheered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace, John Paul strode into the inner courtyard to meet another sovereign. Queen Elizabeth II, in a cheerily informal turquoise dress, was the Supreme Governour of the Church of England, John Paul the head of the Church of Rome; and both heads of state. It was a very private meeting-35 minutes in length, but of incalculable significance...
...Moscow, meanwhile, where Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek was conferring with his Soviet counterpart Andrei Gromyko, a joint communiqué denounced the NATO declaration as "an attempt at grossly interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign state." In a separate commentary, however, the Soviet news agency TASS expressed the hope that disagreements over the Polish question would not compromise the U.S.-Soviet talks in Geneva on limiting intermediate-range nuclear weapons...