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...Normally, international conferences at the Vatican are carefully staged and well modulated. Such was the expectation last week as 1,000 theologians, church officials, health workers and top-flight scientists gathered in Rome for the first Vatican meeting on AIDS. But the script was quickly ripped up as the three-day conference was disrupted by a sign-wielding protester, dissident caucuses and angry charges and countercharges. At one point the conference's organizer, Archbishop Fiorenzo Angelini, had a tense confrontation with an AIDS victim who had sought to speak to the group...
...fall, shooting of some kind is legal, and while I am willing to risk a peppering of bird shot, I don't want to be hulled by the antitank ammunition used for bear or moose (59 moose no longer menace us as the result of a recent three-day shooting season). So most of us stay out of the woods during the year's most beautiful season. Once, during deer season, I rounded a turn on a logging road while running with my dogs. A couple of heroes were sitting in a pickup truck, drinking beer. One had his rifle...
...minute speech to Finnish business leaders, politicians and other guests on the second day of a three-day visit to Finland, Gorbachev repeated his hope to eliminate nuclear weapons from the 148,600-squaremile Baltic...
...Crimson, the two-time defending ITCA champ, suffered from the absence of its two senior co-captains--who are taking time off--as it struggled in the first round of the Three-day tournament. Junior Amy DeLone had the Crimson's only win, defeating Danielle Durak in number-one singles...
...first visit to Washington since he took office last December, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari wanted to do more than exchange pleasantries with the Bush Administration. As it happened, he was able to cap his three-day trip with a flourish last week when he and President Bush signed an agreement to promote free trade and investment between the two countries. At a White House signing ceremony, Bush hailed the pact as evidence of "the special relationship" between the U.S. and Mexico...