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...urged Eugenic Pacelli, the Vatican Secretary of State and later Pope Pius XII, to set up a modern stock portfolio to manage the funds better. After Pacelli became Pope, he decided to set up a bank. The IOR, established in 1942, served to shield some Vatican money from war-torn Europe...
...becomes apparent, vaguely, that the action consists of Claude's dilemma over what to do about getting drafted while various other characters worry about getting laid. But the dialogue is so sparse and cryptic that it's not clear until the final scene that Claude had been torn all along between conforming and resisting, rather than merely trying to decide how best to evade Uncle Sam. When he marches off to Southeast Asia, presumably to die for an empty cause, confusion overshadows the intended irony. Lost also are the characterizations of several of the more prominent female roles, especially those...
...year-old, his father dead. What does one have to tell him? What does he have to say to anyone? Still, he offers a goal, a purpose, in a place where purposes are hard to come by or confused. This day, then, will offer one last look at the torn half city. There is an odd sense of loss and regret at the prospect of leaving. Why? Nothing is whole here. The buildings and bodies broken. Nothing is safe. What has happened so far is terrible; what may happen, more terrible still. Yet this is the center of the world...
...Saudis apparently wanted Gemayel to agree to the P.L.O.'s retention of both a limited military and political presence in the war-torn country, but under Lebanese sovereignty. Under the Saudi plan, a force of 800 to 1,000 Palestinian soldiers would stay in Lebanon, while the remaining guerrilla forces, which may number as high as 35,000, would leave for Jordan, Syria and Egypt, but always subject to local control. Backed with weapons from the Israelis, the Christian Phalange has in the past fought the Muslims and the P.L.O. On his return to Lebanon, Gemayel warned the P.L.O...
...circulating on the dinner-party circuit in Mexico City. There is little likelihood of such a thing: the Mexican military has stayed removed from civilian affairs for half a century. The army is far more disturbed about the insurrectional possibilities along Mexico's southern border with strife-torn Guatemala, where guerrillas are believed to be taking refuge...