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...priests have prominent positions in the Nicaraguan Cabinet, Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann of the U.S. Maryknoll Society, and Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal, a secular priest and noted poet. Four others hold high government posts. But in 1981 Nicaragua's bishops withdrew their approval. A truce was arranged: the priests would remain in office, but they would have to wear civilian clothes when carrying out official duties and not perform religious functions. However, the revised code of canon law, which will go into effect next November, forbids all clerics "to assume public office that involves sharing...
...seemed to be howling out of control. Britain has never seen alarums as sustained as these before. Since Diana appeared on the scene, the unwritten rules between the palace and the press have collapsed under the stampede for news. The palace press office has appealed to editors, but any truce that is called gets broken quickly. "Chasing royals is like a drug, an addiction," says Writer Ashley Walton of the Daily Express. The Queen's press secretary, Michael Shea, mutters about sanctions, but the Tower of London is open only to tourists, not prisoners. "A new wave of hysteria...
Iraq was clearly on the defensive, though, and appealed last week to United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuellar for help in arranging a truce. Having provoked the fighting in September 1980 to regain what he claimed was lost territory, Saddam Hussein now wants out of the war on almost any terms that could be described as honorable. Iran so far has rejected all offers. Even before the present worldwide oil glut, Iraq's petroleum production was down from a peak of about 4 million bbl. per day to about 1 million bbl. per day. Iraqi...
There seems little danger, in the meantime, of a quick truce in the fare wars that have been such a boon to travelers and a bane to carriers. An estimated 80% of all passengers flew at discounts last year, at an average saving of 50%. Such bargains are likely to continue as long as the weakest airlines are tempted to cut prices to fill seats and competitors feel compelled to follow. Says Arthur Jackson, an American Airlines spokesman: "The leaders in discounts are airlines with severe cash problems. Discounting is a way of raising money in order...
...support: a bipartisan plan to raise the federal gasoline tax and use the revenue to finance highway and transit improvements. Unlike the Democrats, Reagan refrained from terming the proposal a "jobs bill." Instead he called it a "user's fee" and a "highway bill." This euphemistic truce enabled both parties to embrace the proposal; it was overwhelmingly approved by the House and was expected to sail through the Senate...