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...Basilica in Rome, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, the Vatican Secretary of State, presided as representatives of Argentina and Chile signed copies of a document marking the end of almost six years of mediation and decades of mutual hostility. The dispute involved the Beagle Channel, which lies at the southern tip of South America. The settlement clarifies each country's territorial and water rights in the waterway and recognizes Chilean sovereignty over three main channel islands, as well as seven smaller ones...
...only a small courtesy, but it changed the young man's life. One day in a black shantytown near Johannesburg, South Africa, Primary Schoolteacher Desmond Mpilo Tutu saw a white man respectfully tip his hat to a black woman. Tutu had never seen a white make such a gesture. The woman was Tutu's mother; the white was the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, now an Anglican bishop. The priest subsequently befriended the young black, and after Tutu was hospitalized in 1953 for tuberculosis, Huddleston visited him daily for 20 months. Tutu, profoundly impressed, followed his white friend into...
Democratic House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr., who supported U.S. Rep. James Shannon in the Democratic primary, was invited to the breakfast but did not show...
Keating calls Jones "a Tip O'Neill liberal, a Walter Mondale liberal." Jones, who has often bucked House Speaker O'Neill by supporting budget cuts and has carefully distanced himself from Mondale, counters, "I am an independent voice for Oklahoma...
...told them I was Tip O'Neill...