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That kind of morality does not sit well with the old-line machine politicians in the P.R.I., who also resent the fact that De la Madrid is a technocrat who has always stood above the rough and tumble of local politics. There were rumblings of unrest within the party when De la Madrid's nomination was announced, particularly since the P.R.I.'s then president, Javier Garcia Paniagua, was not informed of the choice beforehand. Nonetheless the tug of party loyalty, along with some selective purges, has apparently got the machine pols into line, although major power struggles...
...been cheated, and our young conscripts have died for nothing." Finally riot police armed with shotguns and tear-gas launchers moved in on the crowd, firing rubber bullets and canisters of the eye-stinging gas. The mob scattered, setting fire to garbage cans and vehicles on side streets. The unrest continued for several hours. Galtieri never did come out on the balcony. He confined his oration to a twelve-minute television address in which he maintained that Argentina had lost a battle...
...danger and unrest at home were not enough for our leaders to cultivate, they have embarked on a military buildup and foreign policy which will turn the U.S. into more of an arsenal that it now is, and which is already destabilizing a volatile world. "Limited government" somehow means unlimited defense spending. The endless spending of billions of dollars on soon-to-be obsolete nuclear hardware bleeds the economy and accelerates an already frenetic arms race. By contrast, conventional forces and supplies are either neglected or supplemented by overly-sophisticated and insufficiently reliable material...
...latest unrest can be traced to a decision by Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon last November to institute a "civil administration" for the West Bank and Gaza, replacing the purely military government that had prevailed since the occupation began in June 1967. Sharon put a Hebrew University professor of Arabic literature, Menachem Milson, in charge of the new administration. But mayors, intellectuals and student leaders in the West Bank were skeptical, fearing that the civil administration would evolve into a form of "autonomy" that would seemingly meet the requirements of the Camp David agreements but fall far short...
...even possible, for a Pope to visit a largely non-Roman Catholic country that is warring with a Catholic nation? And is it possible, or even wise, for a Pope to plan on a summer visit to his beloved homeland, which last week was the scene of new national unrest? Even as Pope John Paul II and his entourage were preparing for this week's pastoral tour of Fatima and other Portuguese cities, they were reassessing the risks and opportunities of the politically sensitive journey to England later this month and a possible pilgrimage to Poland in August...