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Adams helped found the Fellowship for Racialand Economic Equality and the Journal of Law andReligion. He was chair of the Committee onInternational Organizations for the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences and a Protestantobserver at Vatican...
Peter Theroux, by contrast, genuinely likes the Angelenos and their homeland, whose eccentricities he describes with easy learning , deadpan humor and precise, evocative imagery. Of the largely homosexual enclave of West Hollywood, he notes that "it must have a birthrate only slightly above Vatican City"s ." Entering the ocean near Santa Monica "was like stepping into the small tentacle tips of a monstrous octopus." To Theroux, "every third wave rolled in like an arched emerald wall, rearing up with a thin white crest -- the oceanic equivalent of a cobra spreading its hood, and nearly as un-nerving...
...Vatican, Israel Make Nice...
Building on an agreement made last December to recognize each other, Israel and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations and agreed to exchange ambassadors and open embassies...
Israel and the Vatican put 46 years of stony silence behind them by establishing full diplomatic relations today. The ground-breaking agreement, cemented last Dec. 31, signals a reconciliation with Jews led by Pope John Paul II, whose native Poland witnessed many of the atrocities of the Holocaust. Vatican sources told TIME Rome bureau chief John Moody that the announcement was likely held back almost two months as the Pontiff waited for recent Mideast unrest to subside: "The final part of the negotiations was a bit harder than anybody had anticipated...