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...suspect struck Downey with a large backpack containing several articles of clothing and a Nynex yellow pages phone book, according to police reports...
...points would go into effect within 24 hours. By Saturday, four civilians had been killed by Bosnian Serb snipers in Sarajevo, two American aid workers had been taken hostage by Bosnian Serbs outside Sarajevo, and a helicopter flying to pick up U.N. Commander Lieut. General Michael Rose was struck by Serb gunfire. Said U.N. spokesman Risley: "There is absolutely no change...
...history of humanity, abortion was being proposed as a means of population control. He put all the prestige of his office at the service of this issue." For nine days the Vatican delegates, under his direction, lobbied and filibustered; they kept their Latin American bloc in line and struck up alliances with Islamic nations opposed to abortion. In the end, the Pope won. The Cairo conference inserted an explicit statement that "in no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning"; in return the Vatican gave partial consent to the document...
...divorced in 1976. Remarried by a judge in 1985, he attended Mass regularly without taking Communion. "I've always had an adversarial relationship with the church," he says. Last year, after joining a weekly men's prayer group, he finally decided to take Communion. "Well, I wasn't struck down by a bolt & of lightning and the ceiling didn't open up," he says. "The church and I are at odds, but I feel I'm right on this one." Bernie O'Connor, who manages the gym Mass, says, "It's an individual thing. There are no Communion police...
Pauline and Juliet, two love-struck teenagers in 1950s New Zealand, created a voluptuous fantasy world and moved into it. Director Peter Jackson moves in with them; his fevered camera style communicates the rapture and peril of adolescent hysteria. This hurtling, upsetting film, based on a true murder case, has a thrillingly nervy performance by Melanie Lynskey as the darker, needier Pauline...