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Late last week the meeting broke into small groups to discuss what sort of recommendations to send to the Pope. The bishops have already commissioned a five-member committee to draft a statement to the world's Christians on Vatican II. Nonetheless, it was unclear whether any concrete proposals for new interpretations of the council would emerge before the synod's close on Dec. 8. --By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Daniela Simpson and Wilton Wynn/Rome
...week's end it was still unclear whether the West's anger against the terrorists and their Libyan backers would result in any kind of military action. Among U.S. allies that opposed the intervention were Britain, France and West Germany, all of which have trade links with Libya. Both the White House and the Pentagon insisted that a U.S. strike was unlikely, but at the same time the planning continued. One favored option called for an aerial engagement against Libyan fighters over the Gulf of Sidra, followed by strikes against one or more of the five main air bases strung...
...unclear whether the U.S. and South Korea will be able to agree on a common strategy for dealing with the North. The worry among those eager to supply aid to the North is that diplomatic infighting could cause critical delays in averting the food crisis. "If you let things slide, it can go south really quick," says Ragan from the WFP. The world was taken by surprise during the 1990s famine. "We don't have any excuse for letting it happen again," Ragan says. Then again, neither does Kim Jong...
...unclear how al-Qhatani's interrogation proceeded from that point and whether it is still continuing. Senior Pentagon officials told TIME that some of his most valuable confessions came not during the period covered in the log or as a result of any particular technique but when al-Qahtani was presented with evidence coughed up by others in detention, especially Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, or KSM, the alleged mastermind of 9/11. The intelligence take was more cumulative than anything else, says a Pentagon official. Once al-Qahtani realized KSM was talking, the official speculates, al-Qahtani may have felt...
Before familiarizing themselves with other departments though, it is unclear whether advisers in the Houses are well-informed even about their own department, a result of inadequate coordination and a related reservation on the departments’ part...