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Vatican City may not have as important a role in American foreign policy as Great Britain, and ending U.S. silence towards the Vatican is probably not as momentous as, say, opening the diplomatic door to Communist China, but nonetheless it is a worthwhile act. Some cynical observers might suggest President Reagan's announcement is politically motivated, pointing to the coming election and his desire for Catholic votes. But regardless of Reagan's motives, John Paul is an important international figure American foreign policy should recognize...
...UNITA forces, reportedly supported by South African air strikes, captured the strategic town of Cangamba in southern Angola. During the following two months, SWAPO guerrillas swarmed through northern Namibia. Early last month Pretoria decided to strike back. In a memorable display of ill-timing, the South Africans chose to suggest terms for a trial disengagement in Angola on the same day that they had, according to Angola, killed dozens of civilians in a bombing attack. Their offer was turned down. Several days later Angola replied with the equally wishful demand that South Africa immediately withdraw all its forces and unconditionally...
Those who think issues should prevail in politics deplore any emphasis on personality. Yet personality and character matter, because they suggest how a President would respond in a crisis, or whether he would dare to do the unpopular. Nowadays conversations about candidates turn less on specific issues than on judgments of them as tough-minded, unfair, soft, impetuous, cautious, shrewd, stubborn, dangerous. When with trick or trap questions television interviewers try to test how a challenger would react under pressure, the questioners often end up appearing overbearing and rude. Far from being a diversion from a sensible discussion...
...Does he perhaps mean Canada or Western Europe when he refers to our so-called "satellite" countries? I get the impression that he sees no difference between the Soviet Union's satellites in Eastern Europe and America's partners in Western Europe. If this is the case, may I suggest to Mr. Louis that he travel first to West Germany, and then to East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc. to discover the true implication of the term "satellite country." In the spirit of Orwell's 1984 and Errol T. Louis' "Endpaper," words have a way of losing their distinction...
...unusual number of images fill the novel's pages but many are unnecessary or overdone, Frequently Cardinal produces paragraphs of subtle, suggestive prose only to ruin the effect by making an all-too obvious cooperation at the end. We don't need to be told. For it stance, that the narrator's character traits are "like wild horses putting my carriage," a metaphor which has been better stated since Pla to first used it to describe the human mind. One of the more dramatic images which dominates the beginning of the novel is that of blood, which flows continuously from...