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Even the last-minute preparations for the Pope's arrival in Nicaragua turned into a political tug-of-war between church hierarchy and state. Managua's Archbishop Miguel Obando y Brando, an outspoken critic of the regime, complained that the Sandinista government's plans to use publicly-owned transportation to shuttle Nicaraguans to sites along the papal route were an attempt to control who would be able to see John Paul. Some parish priests urged the faithful to ignore government timetables determining when they could leave for the Mass and instead to form their own religious processions...
Whether or not that is true, the congressional tug of war neatly spotlighted one of the Reagan Administration's chief dilemmas in El Salvador. Says Democratic Congressman Peter Kostmayer of Pennsylvania, a self-styled "realistic pessimist" who supports the option of negotiating with the guerrillas but recognizes that they must also lay down their arms: "It's really a two-front war. One front is in Washington, one in El Salvador. The Administration is losing on both fronts...
...size of our Milky Way Galaxy and discover distant galaxies and quasars. By identifying unknown sources of energy and adding data on the universe's mass, IRAS may help settle the grandest question of all: whether the universe will expand indefinitely or collapse upon itself under the remorseless tug of its own gravity...
Paul McCartney: Tug Of War (Columbia). He is still rock's supreme balladeer, and Here Today is the simplest and best memorial to John Lennon anyone has written...
...University a chance to compete," the article said. The meet included interdormitory relay races and a shot-put event, as well as a potato race, a sack race, a pole-climbing competition and other less-than-standard track and field events. The Class of 1909 won the tug of war. The winter carnival became a popular annual event and was continued for many years...