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Hoping to use the occasion to buff his foreign policy credentials, President Clinton headed off to Europe to participate in the 50th anniversary celebration of D-day and engage in summitry with leaders there. On his way to Normandy, the President met with the Pope at the Vatican, where Clinton stood his ground on abortion rights in the face of steely papal opposition...
...mainly Tutsi rebels and Hutu government forces met twice without successfully establishing a truce in the two-month-old civil war in Rwanda. The rebels continued to tighten their stranglehold on the capital of Kigali and pushed their assault on Gitarama, where the government has relocated. Meanwhile, the Vatican appealed to the U.N. Security Council to establish a "safe area" -- the same concept tried with so little success in Bosnia -- around a large religious complex offering sanctuary to 38,000 Tutsis...
...have been tortuous, but we just can't disagree with the end result: Flynn will not run for governor of Massachusetts. As far as we're concerned Flynn couldn't have chosen better--we look forward to consigning him to the blissful oblivion that the Ambassador to the Vatican surely deserves...
After months of false starts and waffling, Vatican ambassador and former Boston mayor Raymond L. Flynn has decided not to enter this year's race for governor...
Flynn's decision to remain in his Vatican post leaves three declared Democratic candidates for the state's top job. State Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge), state Rep. Mark Roosevelt '78 (D-Beacon Hill) and former state Sen. George Bachrach of Watertown. They have already officially announced their intentions to challenge Gov. William F. Weld '66 in November...