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...even the tiniest, most impoverished towns of Mexico, the Roman Catholic churches are invariably well swept, well appointed and well attended. Yet despite the evident pride Mexicans take in their religion -- 90% of the country's 86 million people are Catholic -- church institutions have been restrained since the 19th century by some of the toughest anticlerical laws anywhere. Restrictions enacted in 1857 dismantled church properties. Sixty years later, after an outbreak of violence by Catholic guerrillas, the government responded with not only more property seizures but the massacre of priests. Through it all, the Catholic Church has maintained its profound...
...days after George Bush interrupted his Kennebunkport vacation to announce his replacement for Justice Thurgood Marshall, the tiniest details of Clarence Thomas' background began to tumble out. They ranged from the lack of indoor plumbing in the house where he was born to the cigars he smokes to the bitter divorce from his first wife...
Technicalities, however, were not the real point; political will was. On the American side, there was some suspicion that Gorbachev would be unable to make any but the tiniest additional concessions. Reason: he was under fire from military leaders who (with some justification) feared that the treaty was shaping up in a fashion skewed in favor of the U.S. On the Soviet side, there was some concern that the U.S. would try to push an already embattled Gorbachev to the wall. One way to do so: insisting on a ban on mobile missiles with multiple warheads, which the U.S.S.R...
...East European counterparts, abolished its monopoly on power. The new policy is designed to improve the party's organization to make it more responsive, but not to expose it to competition. In a speech before the National Assembly last week, Castro reiterated that Havana would not remove "the tiniest bit of authority from the party...
...sight is sickening and terrifying. In crib after crib lie babies and toddlers who look like old people, their skin shriveled, their skeletal faces bearing the unmistakable mark of approaching death. These pitiful children at a clinic in Bucharest are AIDS patients, the tiniest victims of the brutal, backward regime of Rumania's fallen dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu...